I commonly encounter the question whether an AWS instance can serve as a Virtualization host - be it Hyper-V, VMware or Xen. And I can certainly understand the logic behind it - using Virtualization we could get so much more mileage out of our instances and theoretically drop the AWS costs even further down (more on that logic later). The short answer to that question is: No. It is not possible to
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