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Entities: Mike-Dukes, Steele-Taylor, Spot-Invaders
Concepts: AWS-Nitro, EC2-Spot-Instances, ECS
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---
title: "AWS Nitro"
type: concept
tags:
- AWS
- EC2
- Virtualization
- Performance
aliases:
- Nitro
- AWS Nitro System
- Nitro Hypervisor
last_updated: 2026-05-12
---
## Overview
AWS Nitro 是 AWS 自研的专用虚拟化平台通过将网络、存储和安全组件从主机处理器卸载到专用硬件Nitro 卡),大幅提升 EC2 实例的效率和性能。
## Architecture
Nitro 系统由多个专用组件组成:
- **Nitro Hypervisor**:轻量级 Type-1 hypervisor负责 CPU 和内存虚拟化
- **Nitro Card for VPC**:提供 ENIElastic Network Interface和 VPC 网络
- **Nitro Card for EBS**:提供 EBS 卷和网络存储
- **Nitro Card for Instance Storage**:提供本地 NVMe 存储
- **Nitro Enclaves**:提供隔离的执行环境(用于处理敏感数据)
## Benefits
- **性能提升**:减少虚拟化开销,提升网络和存储 I/O 性能
- **更强的隔离性**Nitro Enclaves 提供硬件级隔离的独立计算环境
- **更高的安全性**:安全组件卸载到专用硬件,减少攻击面
- **更大的实例灵活性**:支持更多实例类型和更大实例规格
## Graviton on Nitro
所有 Graviton 实例均运行于 Nitro 系统之上,享受 Nitro 带来的性能和安全优势,同时结合 ARM64 架构的成本效益。
## Related Pages
- [[Graviton]]:运行于 Nitro 的 ARM 处理器
- [[EC2-Spot-Instances]]:可在 Nitro 实例上使用
- [[FinOps]]:云成本优化
- [[public-cloud-learning-sessions-best-practices-for-ec2-cost-optimization-in-aws-2]]