How AWS’s Firecracker virtual machines work | Amazon Science

On May 28, 2020, Marc Brooker, AWS senior principal engineer, presented and hosted a live Q&A on Firecracker, an open source virtualization technology that's purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services. Since 2014, Amazon Web Services has been offering “serverless” computing through AWS Lambda. With Lambda, customers don’t have to worry about managing servers or adjusting capacity in response to fluctuating demand. AWS does the provisioning automatically, and customers simply pay for the resources they use. Read more: https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-awss-firecracker-virtual-machines-work Website: https://www.amazon.science Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmazonScience Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmazonScience Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/AmazonScience LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/AmazonScience