Marc Brooker, AWS Senior Principal Engineer, will host an office hours session at OSDI this year! Tune in on November 5 at 4:00pm PT.
Watch the video below, Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization Opportunities and Challenges, to learn more about what AWS Lambda is doing today, and about the opportunities and challenges for the future. This talk will focus on AWS Lambda that processes trillions of requests per month using Firecracker, a lightweight VMM optimize for serverless and container applications.
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Marc Brooker, Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services, will be hosting an office hours session at the OSDI Conference on November 5.
You can read how AWS Firecracker virtual machines work here by Adrian Costin Cantangiu and Marc Brooker. Watch the full presentation and register to the office hours session to discuss Firecracker, and how it's used inside AWS Lambda.
“Since 2014, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been offering “serverless” computing through AWS Lambda. With Lambda, customers don’t have to worry about managing servers or adjusting capacity in response to fluctuating demand. AWS does the provisioning automatically, and customers simply pay for the resources they use.
When we first built Lambda, we had to choose between two security approaches. One, containerization, is fast and resource efficient but doesn’t provide strong isolation between customers; the other, running code inside a virtual machine, offers greater security at the cost of computational overhead. Security is always our top priority at AWS, so we built Lambda using traditional VMs.
Our customers challenged us to offer faster scaling, lower latency, and advanced features like provisioned concurrency. We knew we couldn’t build those features on traditional VMs, so we built Firecracker, which we released in November 2018 as an open-source virtualization platform.
Firecracker offers the best of both worlds: the security of hardware-virtualization-based virtual machines and the resource efficiency and fast startup time of containers. Last week, at the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’20), my colleagues and I presented a paper explaining how Firecracker works.”
Date: November 5
Time: 4:00PM-5:00PM PST / 7:00PM-8:00PM EST
Chime Meeting: (Virtual access details will be shared with those that register to the event)
Marc Brooker
Marc Brooker is a Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering and has worked at AWS since 2008 on multiple services including EC2, EBS and IoT. Today, he focuses on AWS Lambda, including work on scaling and virtualization. “I've been writing code, reading code, and living vicariously through computers for as long as I can remember. I like to build things that work. I also dabble in brewing, cooking and skiing.”
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