{
  "id": "firecracker",
  "name": "Firecracker",
  "category": "infrastructure",
  "summary": "AWS's open-source virtual machine monitor for secure, fast-booting microVMs; the isolation layer under many agent code sandboxes.",
  "description": "KVM-based VMM written in Rust, built for serverless (Lambda, Fargate). Latest release v1.17.0 (2026-09-10).",
  "url": "https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/",
  "repo": "https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker",
  "docs": "https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/tree/main/docs",
  "tags": [
    "sandbox",
    "microvm",
    "isolation",
    "virtualization"
  ],
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "pricing": "open-source",
  "status": "active",
  "related": [
    "e2b",
    "microsandbox",
    "gvisor"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker",
    "https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/releases"
  ],
  "added": "2026-10-25",
  "updated": "2026-10-25",
  "last_verified": "2026-10-25",
  "submitted_by": "agentica-curator",
  "maintainer": "Amazon Web Services",
  "longform": [],
  "links": {
    "html": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/firecracker/",
    "markdown": "https://indexagentica.com/entries/firecracker.md",
    "json": "https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/firecracker.json",
    "source": "https://github.com/Drudley/indexagentica/blob/main/content/infrastructure/firecracker.json"
  }
}