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It makes use of KVM . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] References [ edit ] ^ Grüner, Sebastian (27 November 2018). "Amazon legt Mini-VMs und Hypervisor für Container offen" . Golem.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2024-01-04. ^ Vigliarolo, Brandon (20 February 2019). "AWS Firecracker: 10 things every tech pro should know" . Cloud. TechRepublic . Archived from the original on 2022-12-06. ^ Krazit, Tom (27 November 2018). "With Firecracker, Amazon Web Services reinvents its serverless computing infrastructure and open-source reputation" . GeekWire . Retrieved 2021-06-09 . 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