Note that this Amazon developed technology does not work on Amazon Web Services instances.
It does however work on Google, Azure and Digital Ocean instances where you can configure nested virtualisation.
It does however work on Google, Azure and Digital Ocean instances where you can configure nested virtualisation.
That is definitely a constraint though, as the smallest available metal instances are pretty large, hence costly on a per instance basis.
Why not? And what is Google, Azure and DI doing differently
That said, it works fine on EC2 Bare Metal instances.
(n.b., I work on the virtualization stack on Google Compute Engine)
@bushbaba I wonder how large the percentage hit could be, if it's like 1% or 10%, if you happen to know
And how that percentage hit compares with gvisor performance wise