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Re:Firecracker v1.0 Released by spdustin on Monday January 31, 2022 @10:15AM (#30148761)
“Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services that provide serverless operational models. Firecracker runs workloads in lightweight virtual machines, called microVMs, which combine the security and isolation properties provided by hardware virtualization technology with the speed and flexibility of containers.”
Re:Firecracker v1.0 Released by denysvitali on Monday January 31, 2022 @01:55PM (#30152416)
Maybe it's also worth mentioning where it's used in AWS: Lambda Functions

Use case: starting a VM as fast as possible while maintaining the isolation that a VM (compared to a container) provides