While Xen should make live migrations technically possible, it would probably reduce EC2's provisioning flexibility and introduce undesirable complexity.
Migrations would be restricted to hosts running specific releases of the hypervisor [1], and AWS's SDN systems would need to handle these changes in very-near-realtime.
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While Xen should make live migrations technically possible, it would probably reduce EC2's provisioning flexibility and introduce undesirable complexity.
Migrations would be restricted to hosts running specific releases of the hypervisor [1], and AWS's SDN systems would need to handle these changes in very-near-realtime.
[1] wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Version_Compatibility