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Firecracker

Firecracker is an open-source virtualization technology from Amazon Web Services that runs lightweight virtual machines called microVMs.

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Firecracker is a virtualization technology that Amazon Web Services (AWS) released as open source in 2018. Written in Rust, it runs microVMs on top of Linux KVM and is designed to combine fast boot times with strong isolation.

It powers serverless services such as AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate and is also used for sandbox environments that run code in isolation.

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