A word about Virtualization, and it’s prerequisitesīefore we jump into the full answer, let’s first have a quick refresher on Virtualization, Emulation and the difference between them. It is not possible to run any kind of Virtualization software inside an AWS Instance. The short answer to that question is: No. I commonly encounter the question whether an AWS instance can serve as a Virtualization host - be it Hyper-V, VMware or Xen.Īnd I can certainly understand the logic behind it - using Virtualization we could get so much more mileage out of our instances and theoretically drop the AWS costs even further down (more on that logic later).