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Amazon uses Xen which they call "Xen 2" I think because they've made tons of improvements and optimizations over the years.

Google uses kvm. They probably contribute as well although I haven't checked.

From a quick search Azure uses a private build of hyper-v which surprises me actually but it's possible.

Edit : millions of VMs doesn't mean anything, at the end of the day it's just servers each running a bunch of VM, which people have been doing for 20+ years. There is no scaling issue there, the hard part is storage, networking, orchestration, managed services, power...

parent bionsystem 2 years ago

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