firecracker-microvm (Amazon Web Services)
Firecracker is an open-source virtualization technology purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services.
At a Glance
- Cloud Computing
- Software Developers
- Enterprise IT
- Serverless Infrastructure Providers
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Firecracker
Open Source MicroVM Monitor
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Latest News
Amazon's cloud business (AWS) surges in Q1 2026 with 28% growth.
AWS Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Firecracker Jailer symlink handling addressed.
Amazon invests $50 billion in OpenAI's $110 billion funding round.
Reflecting on Seven Years of Firecracker: Maturity and Open Source Success.
Products & Services
A lightweight virtual machine monitor (VMM) written in Rust that uses KVM.
A security wrapper that provides a second line of defense for Firecracker microVMs.
Market Position
Firecracker sits between traditional VMs (QEMU) and containers, offering the security of the former with the speed/overhead of the latter.
Leadership
Founders
Jeff Bezos
Founder and former CEO of Amazon. Previously at D.E. Shaw & Co.
Marc Brooker
Senior Principal Engineer at AWS; key architect of Firecracker.
Anthony Liguori
Distinguished Engineer at AWS; leader in virtualization technology.
Executive Team
Andy Jassy
CEO, Amazon.com, Inc.
Formerly CEO of AWS; led AWS from its inception.
Matt Garman
CEO, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Previously SVP of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Support.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
AWS developed Firecracker to address the need for strong security isolation with the speed and efficiency of containers. It was built in Rust to provide a memory-safe foundation for high-density multi-tenant workloads like AWS Lambda.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Open source software provided under Apache 2.0 license. AWS monetizes Firecracker through paid services like AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate that utilize it as infrastructure.
Pricing Tiers
Available on GitHub under Apache 2.0 license.
Uses Firecracker for isolation; customers pay for execution time and requests.
Target Markets
- Cloud Computing
- Software Developers
- Enterprise IT
- Serverless Infrastructure Providers
- Serverless functions (FaaS)
- Multi-tenant container hosting
- Edge computing
- Ephemeral sandboxes
- AWS
- Fly.io
- Appwrite
- Kata Containers Community