Announcing AWS Fargate Price Reduction by Up to 50%

Awesome to see Firecracker[1] already bearing fruit:

> At re:Invent 2018 we announced Firecracker, an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant containers and functions-based services. Firecracker enables you to deploy workloads in lightweight virtual machines called microVMs. These microVMs can initiate code faster, with less overhead. Innovations such as these allow us to improve the efficiency of Fargate and help us pass on cost savings to customers.

Also seeing interesting Firecracker developments around OSv (7ms boot times)[2] and Kata Containers[3]

1. https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/

2. https://twitter.com/osvdev/status/1081461689139281920

3. https://twitter.com/egernst/status/1076308458335494144