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Firecracker

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Firecracker
Score 4.0 out of 10
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Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services. Firecracker enables users to deploy workloads in lightweight virtual machines, called microVMs that may provide security and workload isolation over traditional VMs, while enabling the speed and resource efficiency of containers. Firecracker was developed at Amazon Web Services with the goal of improving services like AWS Lambda…N/A
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Firecracker
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Firecracker
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Features
Firecracker
Server Virtualization
Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
Firecracker
6.4
1 Ratings
26% below category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning6.01 Ratings
Management console8.01 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup6.01 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration7.01 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security5.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Firecracker
Likelihood to Recommend
4.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Firecracker
Likelihood to Recommend
Open Source
While deploying workloads in lightweight microVMs presents a couple of perks, Firecracker may not be the best software to handle this. Startup times are slow and scalability is quite limited because of the jailer and virtualization barriers. We have had security breaches on isolated EC2 instances while using Firecracker. It however has a silver lining by improving how serverless functions in container ecosystems are run with their VMMs.
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Pros
Open Source
  • It makes it easy to secure virtual machines as they are segmented into microvms with a minimal attack surface area
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Cons
Open Source
  • Excludes devices unnecessarily
  • Has a slow startup time the basis being to improve security which is quite irrelevant.
  • It has limited functionalities on monitoring VMs despite being an open source.
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Return on Investment
Open Source
  • Low memory overhead on each microVM
  • We can run workloads from different customers on the same machine.
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