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SUMMARY:Firecracker microVMs - How to Securely Run Thousands of Workloads 
 on a Single Host - Diana Popa\, Amazon
DTSTART:20190507T130000Z
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CONTACT:Alexander Vetterl
DESCRIPTION:Serverless computing offers increased agility and scalability 
 for users\, in part since the cloud providers own the management of the un
 derlying infrastructure. Services such as AWS Lambda and Fargate leverage 
 hardware virtualization to provide strong isolation between multiple tenan
 ts. Until recently\, this was based on full EC2 instances\, which run stat
 eless\, short-lived serverless workloads at suboptimal densities. To break
  out of the status quo\, we developed Firecracker as a fundamental buildin
 g block for multi-tenant container and function-based services.\n\nFirecra
 cker is a security focused virtual machine monitor written in Rust\, that 
 runs on top of KVM and is amenable to CPU and memory oversubscription. It 
 implements a minimalist device model\, boots blazingly fast\, and only inc
 urs a very low memory overhead. Firecracker is already used to run product
 ion workloads\, and its development continues as an open-source project.
LOCATION:LT2\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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