Fly.io — Global PaaS on Firecracker
Fly.io is a PaaS that quickly deploys containers to global edge locations. Internally it converts container images into lightweight Firecracker microVMs.
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Fly.io is a PaaS that quickly deploys containers to global edge locations. Internally it converts container images into lightweight Firecracker microVMs.
The single phrase "deploy on AWS" hides choices that span very different abstraction levels. From managing one EC2 box directly all the way to function-level hosting like Lambda. Including other clouds and PaaS, the pic…