AMAZON WEB SERVICES

Who developed Firecracker? Firecracker was built by developers at Amazon Web Services to enable services such as AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate to improve resource utilization and customer experience, while providing the security and isolation required of public cloud infrastructure. Firecracker started from Chromium OS's Virtual Machine Monitor, crosvm , an open source VMM written in Rust. Today, crosvm and Firecracker have diverged to serve very different customer needs. Rust-vmm is an open source community where we collaborate with crosvm and other groups and individuals to build and share quality Rust virtualization components. Why did you develop Firecracker? When we launched Lambda in November of 2014, we were focused on providing a secure serverless experience. At launch we used per-customer EC2 instances to provide strong security and isolation between customers. As Lambda grew, we saw the need for technology to provide a highly secure, flexible, and efficient runtime environment..

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