en.Wedoany.com Reported - Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a new MicroVM feature for its serverless Functions-as-a-Service platform Lambda, allowing users to run code in isolated environments.

This new feature is released for the AWS Lambda platform, with its MicroVM providing lightweight virtualization capabilities. Each instance offers an independent isolated environment for a single end user or session, with memory and disk states retained only for the duration of the session.

The MicroVM is powered by Firecracker virtualization technology, which was originally used to support AWS Lambda functions. Users can use it without managing infrastructure or possessing virtualization engineering skills.

Increasingly prominent data sovereignty issues, coupled with security challenges related to company data used in conjunction with artificial intelligence workloads, are driving developers to seek secure solutions that provide control over environment lifecycle and state.

AWS aims to meet this demand with this feature while ensuring users do not need to manage complex infrastructure. Its MicroVM product is currently available in the US East (Northern Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions, offering up to 16 vCPUs, 32 GB of memory, and 32 GB of disk per machine. Idle MicroVMs can be automatically suspended via API calls or lifecycle policies to help reduce operating costs while retaining memory and disk states.

MicroVMs support a total runtime of up to eight hours and can be automatically suspended after a configurable idle window. When users resume a session, any installed packages, loaded models, or working file sets can continue to be used.

"Lambda MicroVMs are a new resource in AWS Lambda with a unique API interface. Lambda Functions remain the right choice for event-driven, request-response workloads, while Lambda MicroVMs are built specifically for multi-tenant applications that require an independent environment for each end user or session to execute user or AI-generated code," said Micah Walter, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, in a blog post.

"The two complement each other. Applications using Lambda Functions as an event-driven backbone can invoke Lambda MicroVMs to handle steps that require running untrusted code in isolation. You bring the application, and the service provides the execution environment."

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