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		vbezhenar on Nov 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve vid... What does it mean to support FreeBSD on EC2? Surely it's just a KVM so you can run whatever you want?

sanxiyn on Nov 3, 2022 | [–]

It means, for example, writing a FreeBSD kernel driver for Elastic Network Adapter (ENA). Both Linux kernel driver and FreeBSD kernel driver is available at https://github.com/amzn/amzn-drivers

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