Improving EC2 boot time from 4s to 2.8s to accelerate builds
We at Depot like making shit fast, whether that's Docker image builds, Github Actions runners, Bazel caching, Turborepo, or even our own infrastructure.
Recently, we've been working to make EC2 instances boot faster. Why? Because the faster we can boot an EC2 instance, the faster we can get your build running. We've previously tackled other optimizations around this problem like warming our EBS volumes, and it's a fantastic read if you're looking to make a huge impact on boot times (no bias, of ...
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