Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing
What this is allows, and I'm hoping a full fledged service will be announced on Thursday or Friday, is running containers as Lambdas. i.e. if you application starts fast enough, you can just set a container to start and run as a request comes in. It can also shut down when it's done running.This allows things like per second billing for container runs, serverless containers (there's no container running 24/7, only when there's traffic), etc.