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Comment by paxys

18 days ago

And yet Amazon spent a ton of time and money writing Firecracker from scratch for their workloads. Why is that?

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cpuguy83  18 days ago

Multiple reasons:

1. Firecracker is still a smaller more deliberate surface area 2. qemu didn't have a microvm type at the time. Firecracker was the impetus for it

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