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Serverless is one of the hottest topics in cloud services. How does AWS Lambda work behind the scenes? Lambda is a serverless computing service provided by Web Services (AWS), which runs functions in response to events. Firecracker MicroVM Firecracker is the engine powering all of the Lambda functions [1]. It is a virtualization technology developed at and written in Rust.
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