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yingw787 on May 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: What a typical serverless architecture looks like ...

I don't get why you have to go with .metal EC2 instances only, can you elaborate?

asguy on May 23, 2020 [–]

Firecracker uses KVM to implement virtualization to launch containers inside "micro" VMs. As far as I know, Amazon only gives you virtualization extension access on bare metal instances.

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