<story><title>Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-computing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sudhirj</author><text>What this is allows, and I&amp;#x27;m hoping a full fledged service will be announced on Thursday or Friday, is running containers as Lambdas. i.e. if you application starts fast enough, you can just set a container to start and run as a request comes in. It can also shut down when it&amp;#x27;s done running.&lt;p&gt;This allows things like per second billing for container runs, serverless containers (there&amp;#x27;s no container running 24&amp;#x2F;7, only when there&amp;#x27;s traffic), etc.</text></comment>
<story><title>Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing</title><url>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-virtualization-for-serverless-computing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blasdel</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a Github Pages FAQ describing why it was made and how it fits with other solutions: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;firecracker-microvm.github.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;firecracker-microvm.github.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;and a high-level design document about how it works &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;firecracker-microvm&amp;#x2F;firecracker&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;design.md&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;firecracker-microvm&amp;#x2F;firecracker&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;mast...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>