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by baxter_pad 3 hours ago
Fargate does not use Firecracker, it is simply ec2 instances.
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Source?

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-vir... says

> Battle-Tested – Firecracker has been battled-tested and is already powering multiple high-volume AWS services including AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate.

Counterpoint: https://justingarrison.com/blog/2024-02-08-fargate-is-not-fi...

And also, you’ll notice that Fargate takes minutes to launch while Lambda takes a second or less. You’re waiting on AWS to launch a EC2 with your config and pull your containers into it.

(that article matches things I heard from Amazon when I asked why my stuff is slow)

the doc is out of date