AWS just announced Lambda MicroVMs https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/06/aws-lambda-microvms.
It’s interesting to see how many different people came to the same idea at the same time: that in the age of AI, the ability to run “who-knows-what’s-inside” workloads with proper isolation is becoming more and more important. I’ve been playing with this in my free time too and ended up with https://github.com/artemnikitin/firework.
The funny thing is that Firecracker has been sitting right there since 2018. Waiting for its prime time to get out of its niche. And we can safely assume that the amount of its usage (and similar tech) will only grow further from now.
It’s also a great example of how AI can increase developer productivity. It took me around a week (working in my free time of course) to get to a working state with AI help and I’d guess that without it, the same result would have taken a month or two. The AI productivity gains are real and they are already here.