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MicroVMs for throw-away jobs
MicroVMs is a way to provide you a short-lived isolated execution environment. What are they best for? Right, security related tasks! How about running the virus scanning on docker images?

While I am personally skeptical on mere signature-check scans in general and ClamAV in particular, the idea of running high risk payloads in isolated envs is really appealling. Checkout how to leverage MicroVMs for it.

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Pubudu.Dev Scan user uploaded files using AWS Lambda MicroVM and ClamAV AWS Lambda MicroVMs are isolated serverless compute environments that provide vm-level isolation. In this post, I discuss a scenario where user uploaded files can be scanned for malware using MicroVM and ClamAV an open-source antivirus engine.
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