AWS Firecracker

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Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing

What is AWS Firecracker?

Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services that provide serverless operational models. Firecracker runs workloads in lightweight virtual machines, called microVMs, which combine the security and isolation properties provided by hardware virtualization technology with the speed and flexibility of containers.
AWS Firecracker is a tool in the Serverless / Task Processing category of a tech stack.

Who is using it?

1 companies use AWS Firecracker in their tech stacks, including Koyeb,

Koyeb

Why developers like AWS Firecracker