Amazon Web Services releases new open-source Firecracker lightweight hypervisor technology based on KVM, in an effort to help improve serverless security and performance.

Amazon has announced the release of Firecracker, an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for “creating and managing secure, multi-tenant containers and functions-based ...

Firecracker takes advantage of the company’s work on its Nitro architecture to create what AWS is calling “microVMs,” which allows AWS to spread serverless workloads around multiple servers ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the retailer's massively profitable cloud-computing arm, has a reputation for taking open-source-software projects developed elsewhere and selling them as paid services ...

Software startup Weaveworks celebrated their fifth birthday by releasing an open source project called Weave Ignite. This project is billed as a "GitOps-managed virtual machine (VM) with a ...