AWS Firecracker Alternatives

AWS Firecracker is described as 'Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services that provide serverless operational models' and is a Virtualization tool in the network & admin category. There are three alternatives to AWS Firecracker for Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted solutions, Windows and BSD. The best alternative is QEMU, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like AWS Firecracker are Cassowary and Kata Containers.

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AWS Firecracker

Free • Proprietary
Virtualization Tool
Self-Hosted

Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure,...

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QEMU
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Free • Open Source
Virtualization Tool
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42 alternatives to QEMU
QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware virtualization.
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1. PortableQEMU can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. LightweightQEMU consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
3. Support for scriptingQEMU supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
4. Privacy focusedQEMU is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
5. Container VirtualizationQEMU can make use of isolated user spaces called "containers" to run applications.
6. Command line interfaceQEMU either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
GPU Acceleration
Security focused
User mode emulation
Emulation
Cassowary
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Free • Open Source
Virtualization Tool
Linux
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Run Windows Applications on Linux as if they are native. Use Linux applications to launch files located in Windows WM without needing to install applications on WM. With easy to use configuration GUI. TEST.
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Cassowary Features
Run Windows software
Kata Containers
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Free • Proprietary
Self-Hosted
1 alternatives to Kata Containers
Kata Containers is an open source, secure container runtime with lightweight virtual machines that feel and perform like containers, but provide stronger workload isolation using hardware virtualization technology as a second layer of defense.
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Kata Containers Features
1. LightweightKata Containers consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.

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Cassowary

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