Announcing the FreeBSD/Firecracker platform

The Firecracker Virtual Machine Monitor was developed at Amazon Web Services as a building block for services like AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate. While there are many ways of launching and managing VMs, Firecracker distinguishes itself with its focus on minimalism — important both for security (fewer devices means less attack surface) and reducing the startup time, which is very important if you're launching VMs on demand in response to incoming HTTP requests. When Firecracker was first released, t...