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The AWS EC2 virtualization team invented and maintains the Nitro system. And that team is overwhelmingly based in Seattle, WA USA.

You sure about that? Maybe it's just a coincidence but the low-level people I've talked to are almost never based in Seattle.

The Nitro Hypervisor team is (mostly) in Berlin :)

The Nitro _card_ teams are elsewhere

Fair enough. The comment was about software, and to me the Nitro hypervisor is software while the Nitro card is hardware and firmware. ;-)

Networking, firewalls, all infra OS including encryption is developed in the USA. Nitro is just one component and not necessarily the most important

You mean the same Germany that uses its domestic access to the bargain basement cloud providers like Hetzner and Contabo to de-anonymize Tor users for international law enforcement?

Or the Germany that bought Crypto AG along with the CIA to backdoor encryption hardware?