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Introducing AWS Nitro Sandboxes on Amazon EKS, ECS and EC2 for hardware isolated pods, tasks and VMs

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AWS·Nov 9, 2026, 08:00 AMFeatureSecurity-relevantAI-assisted summary

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Introduces AWS Nitro Sandboxes as lightweight VMs for EKS pods, ECS tasks, and EC2 instances, providing hardware‑isolated environments
Provides per‑workload isolation, cryptographic attestation, and near‑native performance with a one‑line enablement, supporting Amazon Linux and Firecracker
Available at no additional charge on Nitro‑based instances across all commercial regions

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