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Re:Making EC2 boot time 8x faster by cr125rider on Thursday May 23, 2024 @02:20PM (#40458038)
Fargate is an alternative that runs on Firecracker as well. It's hidden behind ECS and EKS, however.
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Re:Making EC2 boot time 8x faster by scarface_74 on Thursday May 23, 2024 @10:05PM (#40462183)
And CodeBuild…
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Re:Making EC2 boot time 8x faster by mochomocha on Thursday May 23, 2024 @11:15PM (#40462491)
According to [1] Fargate is actually not using Firecracker, but probably something closer to a single container running in a single-tenant ec2 VM. If true, this makes VM boot-time optimizations and warm pooling even more important for such product.

[1]: https://justingarrison.com/blog/2024-02-08-fargate-is-not-fi...

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Re:Making EC2 boot time 8x faster by plopz on Friday May 24, 2024 @12:53AM (#40462899)
Fargate is too slow without the container cache you can get with ec2
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