There's no better way to get good information that is right, than to say something that is misguided and/or wrong.
replyThanks for the well-reasoned response.
I always enjoy the color you add to these conversations. Thanks!
replyI always enjoy the color you add to these conversations in your newsletter.
replyIt's provided many a chuckle.
Thanks!
Seriously curious, don’t Firecracker VMs already run on EC2 instances under the hood when they host Lambda and Fargate?
replyUnfortunately I'm not at liberty to dive deep into those details. I will say that Firecracker can be used on bare metal EC2 instances, whether you're a public customer or AWS itself. :-)
replyI guess I should have peeked at the source code when I was there…
replyNo need, at least when I was there when the day was still one, before the pandemic. And well, Firecracker is open source.
replyA few of the best technical presentations that I've watched were at a pre-SKO event. Nitro, Graviton and Firecracker.
Great engineering pieces, the three of them.
Since I don't work for AWS I'm allowed to say that at the scale of millions/billions of microVMs you're better off running them on bare metal instances to avoid the overhead of nested virtualization.
replyI used to work for AWS and I’m allowed to say the same thing. ;-)
replyNitro is very interesting stuff
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