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Since I don't work for AWS I'm allowed to say that at the scale of millions/billions of microVMs you're better off running them on bare metal instances to avoid
by wmf 9mo ago
Since I don't work for AWS I'm allowed to say that at the scale of millions/billions of microVMs you're better off running them on bare metal instances to avoid the overhead of nested virtualization.
- otterley 9mo agoI used to work for AWS and I’m allowed to say the same thing. ;-)
- raw_anon_1111 9mo agoIf I remember correctly, Firecracker VMs don’t have the same security guarantees as EC2 instances. I think I remember that AWS doesn’t put multiple accounts lambdas either on the same bare metal server or VM. I can’t remember which
- yencabulator 8mo agoThere is no way a random small account running a single serverless function gets a whole bare metal server dedicated to them.