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Author here. Actually it is using double nested virtualization. So there's 4 levels involved:

* Amazon runs Xen (bare metal OS)

* We run our hypervisor on top of Amazon (first level guest)

* Customer runs OpenStack compute node (second level guest, first level of nested).

* Instance runs on Openstack (third level guest, second level nesting)