Name: How AWS’s Firecracker virtual machines work | Amazon Science
Uploaded: 2020-06-10T02:19:42.000Z
Duration: 21 min 22 s
Description: How AWS’s Firecracker virtual machines work | Amazon Science

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Firecracker

Virtualization is the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device or network resources. Server Virtualization is the creation of such virtual instances or virtual machines (VMs) via hypervisors or physical servers providing multiple users access to isolated virtual spaces, effectively aggregating usage and spreading the cost of storage and access among users.

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Crazy King firecracker demo! These guys are the new or old (depending on who you ask) version of the Whistling Thunder firecrackers, and they pack a punch! These guys are slightly longer and thinner than the Whistling thunders, and have a slightly louder and much deeper bang, which I personally prefer. These guys come 20 in pack, and cost about 4$ a pack! Great price, great noise, and a much improved version of the whistling thunder!

Type: Firecracker
Effect: Whistle to report
Packaging: 20pcs a box, 100 boxes a case
Price: 4$ a pack of 20
Rating: 8.5/10

Decently loud bang and great price, and I would definitely prefer these over the original whistling thunders! Not the loudest cracker ever but still pretty loud, and I would definitely pick these up if you can find them!

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How AWS’s Firecracker virtual machines work | Amazon Science

On May 28, 2020, Marc Brooker, AWS senior principal engineer, presented and hosted a live Q&A on Firecracker, an open source virtualization technology that's purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services. Since 2014, Amazon Web Services has been offering “serverless” computing through AWS Lambda. With Lambda, customers don’t have to worry about managing servers or adjusting capacity in response to fluctuating demand. AWS does the provisioning automatically, and customers simply pay for the resources they use. Read more: https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-awss-firecracker-virtual-machines-work

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Server virtualization allows multiple operating systems to be run completely independently on a single server

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Firecracker 2022-05-19 11:44:32

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We have used Firecracker to deploy a few workloads in lightweight microVMs. Being an open-source virtualization software, it is able to manage effectively multi-tenant containers and function-based services alike. Although not the best, it works as it's supposed to as a virtual machine monitor but with very limited functions.

It makes it easy to secure virtual machines as they are segmented into microvms with a minimal attack surface area

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.

Low memory overhead on each microVM
We can run workloads from different customers on the same machine.

Firecracker

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What is Firecracker?