CRC on AWS and BIOS virtualization

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I need to get CRC running on a cloud provider (I am trying AWS), but keep finding that it crashes upon setup at the
INFO Setting up virtualization
You need to enable virtualization in the BIOS.
I have not been able to find anything that gets me over this particular hump - I know virtualization is an issue with VMs. Has anyone succeeded and can share your secret sauce?
Thanks!

Details:

AMI: RHEL_HA-8.4.0_HVM-20210504-x86_64-2-Hourly2-GP2

Instance Type: t3.xlarge

After all the usual install stuff ...

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-63-85 ~]$ crc setup
CodeReady Containers is constantly improving and we would like to know more about usage (more details at https://developers.redhat.com/article/tool-data-collection)
Your preference can be changed manually if desired using 'crc config set consent-telemetry <yes/no>'
Would you like to contribute anonymous usage statistics? [y/N]: y
Thanks for helping us! You can disable telemetry with the command 'crc config set consent-telemetry no'.
INFO Using bundle path /home/ec2-user/.crc/cache/crc_libvirt_4.10.3_amd64.crcbundle
INFO Checking if running as non-root
INFO Checking if running inside WSL2
INFO Checking if crc-admin-helper executable is cached
INFO Caching crc-admin-helper executable
INFO Using root access: Changing ownership of /home/ec2-user/.crc/bin/crc-admin-helper-linux
INFO Using root access: Setting suid for /home/ec2-user/.crc/bin/crc-admin-helper-linux
INFO Checking for obsolete admin-helper executable
INFO Checking if running on a supported CPU architecture
INFO Checking minimum RAM requirements
INFO Checking if crc executable symlink exists
INFO Creating symlink for crc executable
INFO Checking if Virtualization is enabled
INFO Setting up virtualization
You need to enable virtualization in BIOS

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