Re:Scale-to-Zero: Wake VMs in 200ms with Light Sleep, eBPF, ...
by eyberg on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @07:42PM
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There are a few ways to approach this. If you don't mind owning the orchestration layer this is precisely what firecracker does.
If you don't even want to pay for that though scheduling unikernels on something like ec2 gets you your full vm, is cheaper, has more resources than lambda and doesn't have the various limitations such as no gpu or timeouts or anything like that.
If you don't even want to pay for that though scheduling unikernels on something like ec2 gets you your full vm, is cheaper, has more resources than lambda and doesn't have the various limitations such as no gpu or timeouts or anything like that.