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Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services. It enables you to deploy workloads in lightweight virtual machines (microVMs) that provide enhanced security and workload isolation over traditional VMs, while enabling the speed and resource efficiency of containers.

For teams that want the capabilities of Firecracker without managing infrastructure, Lambda MicroVMs is a fully managed serverless compute primitive. Built on the same Firecracker virtualization powering 15 trillion+ monthly Lambda function invocations, it provides isolated sandboxes with near-instant launch, state persistence for up to 8 hours, and automatic suspend/resume. No capacity planning required.

Object Mount includes its own CSI driver for Kubernetes, allowing you to use AWS S3, Google Cloud, and Azure storage seamlessly within your Kubernetes clusters.

Object Mount was originally developed to deliver high-throughput, POSIX-compatible filesystem access to object storage for high-performance workloads in the genomics industry. It has since evolved into a full Mountpoint alternative that can mount AWS S3, Google Cloud, and Azure Blob Storage as a filesystem in virtually any Linux environment.

OpenAI has been on a dealmaking spree of late, announcing roughly $1.4 trillion worth of buildout agreements with companies including Nvidia, Broadcom, Oracle and Google — prompting skeptics to warn of an AI bubble and question whether the country has the power and resources needed to turn the ambitious promises into reality.

A $9.5B return on an $8B investment in less than a year. Not bad! How does "main street" get in on investments like that?!

The company reported a $9.5 billion pre-tax gain from its investment in the AI startup Anthropic, which was included in Amazon’s non-operating income for the quarter...

To put the $9.5 billion paper gain in perspective, the Amazon Web Services cloud business — historically Amazon’s primary profit engine — generated $11.4 billion in quarterly operating profits...

Amazon has invested and committed a total of $8 billion in Anthropic, initially structured as convertible notes.

Love this. Like a well-defined retro process for events from tech to all parts of the business.