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AWS Launches 'AWS Nitro Sandboxes,' Lightweight VMs with Strong Isolation and Native EC2 Performance for AI Agents

AWS Launches 'AWS Nitro Sandboxes,' Lightweight VMs with Strong Isolation and Native EC2 Performance for AI Agents
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The article explains the launch of AWS Nitro Sandbox, a lightweight VM that delivers near‑native performance on Amazon EC2 instances while providing strong hardware‑level isolation via the Nitro system.

Key points

  • •It is a lightweight virtual machine that runs on Amazon EC2 instances with near‑native EC2 performance.
  • •It includes an extremely strong hardware‑level isolation environment provided by the Nitro system.
  • •Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the product’s availability.
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