AWS Boosts Serverless Security With Firecracker MicroVMs

guest · Nov 27, 2018

AWS Boosts Serverless Security With Firecracker MicroVMs
November 27, 2018
http://www.eweek.com/security/aws-boosts-serverless-security-with-firecracker-microvms

The new Firecracker technology provides a different approach, with a lightweight micro-hypervisor that isolates microservices and serverless functions with less performance overhead and improved security.

"Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services that provide serverless operational models," the GitHub project page for Firecracker states.
Security
The challenge with running containers on a host operating system is that an attacker could potentially get unauthorized access to system resources. With Firecracker, AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr blogged, comes a simple guest model that reduces the attack surface.
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Currently, Firecracker only supports Intel CPUs, though the public roadmap has support for both AMD and ARM CPUs listed as future deliverables.
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