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by nilptr 1030 days ago
> There's no way an "enterprise grade" cloud vendor like AWS would allow co-tenancy of containers (for ECS, Lambda etc) from different customers within a single VM - it's the reason Firecracker exists.

I won't speak for AWS, but your assumption about what "enterprise grade" cloud vendors do is dead wrong. I know, because I'm working on maintaining one of these systems.

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Lots of enterprise grade cloud vendors trust the Linux kernel boundary WAY too much...
“Enterprise grade” deserves scare quotes for those people of course!
i read it like "military grade" meaning it's on the side of over-provisioned/-engineered and will not break in obvious ways