💼 [EC2.24] Amazon EC2 paravirtual instance types should not be used

• Contextual name: 💼 [EC2.24] Amazon EC2 paravirtual instance types should not be used
• ID: /frameworks/aws-fsbp-v1.0.0/ec2/24
• Located in: 💼 Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Description

Linux Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) use one of two types of virtualization: paravirtual (PV) or hardware virtual machine (HVM). The main differences between PV and HVM AMIs are the way in which they boot and whether they can take advantage of special hardware extensions (CPU, network, and storage) for better performance.

Historically, PV guests had better performance than HVM guests in many cases, but because of enhancements in HVM virtualization and the availability of PV drivers for HVM AMIs, this is no longer true.

Similar

• AWS Security Hub
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/securityhub/latest/userguide/ec2-controls.html#ec2-24
• Internal
  • ID: dec-c-1d1853bc

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📝 AWS EC2 Instance uses paravirtual Virtualization Type 🟢	1	🟢 x6