Amazon&#x27;s virtualized scale is the counterpoint to bare metal being the only &quot;state of the art&quot;.<p>Virtualization is not going anywhere, and I don&#x27;t think most companies will be adopting bare metal en masse as you suggest especially as virtualized extensions to containers like rancherVM become commonplace.<p>Also, many in the financial sector prefer the security benefits of hypervisor and VT-x isolation to reduce exposure to kernel&#x2F;hw-level exploits.