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Re:WASM will replace containers by reissbaker on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @09:18PM (#43021066)
Well, AWS, typically.
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Re:WASM will replace containers by ninetyninenine on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @09:20PM (#43021079)
Are you sure? Are those instances a VM or another docker container? Does anyone from amazon know?
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Re:WASM will replace containers by reissbaker on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @09:33PM (#43021160)
It's a custom VM they wrote called Nitro: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/
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Re:WASM will replace containers by threeseed on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @09:37PM (#43021194)
Depends what part you mean.

AWS Fargate / Lambda are Firecracker VMs. EC2 are normal VMs.

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