Amazon EC2 supports nested virtualization on virtual Amazon EC2 instances

2026-02-18

Amazon EC2 has introduced the ability to create nested environments within virtualized instances, a capability previously limited to bare metal EC2. Available on C8i, M8i, and R8i instances across all commercial regions, this allows customers to run KVM or Hyper-V for use cases such as mobile application emulators and Windows Subsystem for Linux.