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		slondr on March 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Remote Code Execution as a Service Fly uses Firecracker like AWS Lambda, not full-fledged VMs like EC2.

iampims on March 8, 2023 [–]

That’s not accurate. Fly creates a FC VM from a Dockerfile but injects a pid1 supervisor and behaves more like EC2 than Lambda (no 15 mins execution limit for instance).

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