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Rolling your own firecracker solution would put the control in your hands, but then aren't you limited to .metal EC2 instances (with all the cost increases that

by asguy 6y ago

Rolling your own firecracker solution would put the control in your hands, but then aren't you limited to .metal EC2 instances (with all the cost increases that come with it)?

yingw787 6y ago
I don't get why you have to go with .metal EC2 instances only, can you elaborate?
- asguy 6y ago
  Firecracker uses KVM to implement virtualization to launch containers inside "micro" VMs. As far as I know, Amazon only gives you virtualization extension access on bare metal instances.