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Fargate is an alternative that runs on Firecracker as well. It's hidden behind ECS and EKS, however.


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...


Fargate is too slow without the container cache you can get with ec2


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