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chrisbolt on July 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: VMWare Screw Customers

Amazon uses Xen, they probably don't pay VMware or Citrix for any licensing.

malandrew on July 15, 2011 [–]

They don't. Amazon is built off the FOSS version of Xen - http://xen.org/

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