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AWS Launches Lambda MicroVMs for Isolated, Stateful Sandboxes
AWS introduced Lambda MicroVMs, a new compute primitive providing dedicated Firecracker VMs per user or session for running untrusted code. Each MicroVM offers full VM-level isolation, persistent state up to 8 hours, and automatic suspend/resume. Pricing is per-second with no minimum, scaling CPU and memory up to 4x baseline.
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This is a significant addition to AWS's serverless lineup, directly addressing the gap between short-lived Lambda functions and heavier EC2 instances for sandboxing untrusted code.
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