cloud: AWS VM technology

Amazon WS is not using VMware or Hyper-V, but customized Linux for VMs.
That is a huge value from open source software.

Current market value of VMware is $28B
vmware stock valuation - Google Search

Amazon Machine Images (AMI) - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud


Linux AMI Virtualization Types - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Linux - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

What Is Amazon EC2? - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud


Comparison of platform virtualization software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hypervisor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



On the Origin of KVM (Virtualization@IBM)

History of Virtualization | Everything VM