AWS re:Invent 2018: Firecracker’s minimalist VM lights up the serverless sky

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Firecracker is an eye-catching virtual machine from AWS. It is lightweight, secure, and uses Linux. Forget bloat, minimalism is the future of serverless.

Firecracker is a new virtualization technology that enables customers to deploy lightweight micro Virtual Machines or microVMs. Firecracker microVMs combine the security and workload isolation properties of traditional VMs with the speed, agility and resource efficiency enabled by containers. They provide a secure, trusted environment for multitenant services, while maintaining minimal overhead.

Source: jaxenter.com