Amazon's Werner Vogels On Reinventing Virtualization
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels used his always-anticipated re:Invent keynote to detail the hardware and software innovations making the world's largest cloud more performant and secure.Those efforts started years ago with reinventing virtualization the technology that underpins modern cloud computing, Vogels told attendees of his Thursday keynote at the massive AWS conference in Las Vegas. AWS has been building custom hardware and advancing novel software architectures to reduce latency, minimize resource overhead, and better isolate compute instances, he said.