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Importance of Virtualization in the Amazon EC2 Cloud

Another critical part of the entire process of virtualization in Amazon EC2 is Amazon Machine Image (AMI), which is also a virtual appliance. However, AMI is mainly responsible for creating on-demand virtual machines within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) would not exist without the virtualization which is right at the core of IaaS cloud model and the EC2 implementation at Amazon. Virtualization allows Amazon to run different types of virtual machines of various sizes on top of their hardware. It’s safe to say, that Amazon heavily uses virtualization through capabilities offered by Xen hypervisor and Amazon AMI.

Reference:https://www.joe0.com/2017/06/11/importance-of-virtualization-in-the-amazon-ec2-cloud/