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