<p>I am trying to install and run Minikube (or some kind of local Kubernetes) on an AWS EC2 instance of Windows 2016.  I have seen multiple tutorials on how to do this with an Ubuntu instance, but wasn't sure if anyone has had success using nested VM's on EC2 Windows.  Any guidance you can provide would be greatly appreciated!</p>

<p>EC2 instances don't support nested virtualization as some <a href="https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/enable-nested-virtualization-vm-instances" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GCP</a> or <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/nested-virtualization-in-azure/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Azure</a> instances do. (As of this writing)</p>

<p>Short answer, is that it won't work with regular instances. However, you can use a <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-bare-metal-instances-with-direct-access-to-hardware/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">bare metal instance</a> (i3.metal, and they are a bit costly).  </p>

<p>I expect that AWS will create more bare metal offerings in the future and at some point offer nested virtualization on other types of instances.</p>
