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Importance of Virtualization in the Amazon EC2 Cloud

What is virtualization

Creating of a virtual version of something.

Virtualization and the Amazon IaaS Cloud Service Model

Delivers virtual computer infrastructure as a service Hypervisor sits on top of the host system where all the customer VM run Amazon Machine Image is a virtual applicance which is responsible for creating on-demanding VM