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Amazon is a major player in the cloud segment. Started more than a decade ago, Amazon and its cloud empire have grown significantly thanks to AWS (Amazon Web Services) and it’s large margins when compared to the company’s retail business.
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One of the company’s newer features is called Firecracker which is a new virtualization technology. This feature is built on-top of Kernel-based Virtual Machine that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor.
This new tool makes it possible to launch lightweight micro-virtual machines in non-virtualized environments in less than a second. What this allows you to do is to create workload isolation that VMs have traditionally offered but with the resource efficiency that containers provide.
Amazon looks at Firecracker as the first step of many towards a more sustainable and productive microservices architecture. Going forward, look for the company to innovate on this idea to make it easier to run larger and deeper processes inside of Firecracker with the near instant ability to launch, execute, and shut down the service.
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