Amazon.com, Inc.
Customized partitioning of compute instances

Abstract:

At a virtualization host which includes an instance partitioning controller, a set of resources is allocated to a compute instance by a virtualization manager. The first compute instance does not include another virtualization manager. In response to a communication from the controller, the virtualization manager allocates a subset of the resources to a child compute instance launched at the virtualization host. An application is executed within the child compute instance.