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no_wizard
on July 10, 2023
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We replaced Firecracker with QEMU
Super common though. Everyone from Hetzner to AWS does this, unless you specifically pay for full allocation, which is typically ~2x the price.
Chances are you are using systems that do this and you haven't even noticed.
yokaze
on July 10, 2023
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Werner Vogels seems to disagree:
https://twitter.com/Werner/status/25137574680
rob-olmos
on July 10, 2023
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Tweeted Sep 21, 2010, might still be true for EC2 VMs though.
cthalupa
on July 10, 2023
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There's the 't' series of instances that offer burstable CPU. AFAIK still 1:1 on memory though, and there's models that allow you to pay to stay un-throttled when using t family instances vs. getting throttled when out of burst credits.
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Chances are you are using systems that do this and you haven't even noticed.