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Re:We Replaced Firecracker with QEMU by ushakov on Monday July 10, 2023 @01:52PM (#36670202)
It’s a common technique though. I believe it’s called oversubscription, where you rent the same hardware to more tenants hoping they won’t use it all at once.

Fly.io themselves admitted they’re oversubscribed and AWS is doing the same for years now

Source: https://fly.io/blog/the-serverless-server/

Re:We Replaced Firecracker with QEMU by tptacek on Monday July 10, 2023 @10:33PM (#36675778)
We're not using virtio memory ballooning right now (we've never had the time to get it working).