You are correct. However: - These days, it has become common to use the term "Virtual Machine" specifically to refer to hardware virtualization. The old meanin

You are correct. However: - These days, it has become common to use the term "Virtual Machine" specifically to refer to hardware virtualization. The old meaning of the term, referring to language runtimes, is (sadly) now so uncommon as to be outright confusing to many people. - Most other Serverless environments technically do wrap their containers in virtual machines (like Firecracker), since plain containers aren't considered sufficiently secure on their own.