- Firecracker enables you to deploy workloads in lightweight virtual machines, called microVMs, which provide - enhanced security and workload isolation over traditional VMs, while enabling the speed and resource - efficiency of containers. Firecracker was developed at Amazon Web Services to improve the customer - experience of services like - AWS Lambda - and - AWS Fargate - . -
-- Firecracker is a virtual machine monitor (VMM) that uses the Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) to - create and manage microVMs. Firecracker has a minimalist design. It excludes unnecessary devices and guest - functionality to reduce the memory footprint and attack surface area of each microVM. This improves - security, decreases the startup time, and increases hardware utilization. Firecracker is generally available on - - 64-bit Intel, AMD and Arm CPUs with support for hardware virtualization. - -
-- Firecracker is used by/integrated with (in alphabetical order): - appfleet, - containerd via - firecracker-containerd, - Fly.io, - Kata Containers, - Koyeb, - Northflank, - OpenNebula, - Qovery, - UniK, - webapp.io, and - microvm.nix. - Firecracker can run Linux and - OSv - guests. Our latest roadmap can be found - here. -
-+ Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology purpose-built for creating and managing secure, + multi-tenant container and function-based services. It enables you to deploy workloads in lightweight + virtual machines (microVMs) that provide enhanced security and workload isolation over traditional VMs, + while enabling the speed and resource efficiency of containers. +
++ For teams that want the capabilities of Firecracker without managing infrastructure, Lambda MicroVMs is a fully + managed serverless compute primitive. Built on the same Firecracker virtualization powering 15 trillion+ + monthly Lambda function invocations, it provides isolated sandboxes with near-instant launch, state persistence + for up to 8 hours, and automatic suspend/resume. No capacity planning required. +
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