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

AWS Nitro Sandboxes are now available as lightweight VMs managed by the Nitro Hypervisor on Amazon EKS, ECS, and EC2. The hardware-isolated virtual machines allow users to securely run untrusted, multi-tenant, or regulated workloads—such as LLM-generated code and AI agents—while improving resource utilization and lowering compute costs. Enabling the capability in EKS or ECS requires a one-line change, with workloads retaining native integration features like VPC CNI and IAM roles. Open article →