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Posted by justincormack 4 days ago

MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control(aws.amazon.com)
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metadat 1 day ago|
How does this compare to E2B?
zobeirhamid 1 day ago||
e2b supports UDP and the pricing structure is different.
ushakov 1 day ago||
i’d say what AWS released looks closer to a bare compute primitive. E2B is up the stack and ships everything around VM like snapshots, networking, integrations.

also, there’s no lock-in, E2B is open-source and can be hosted on any cloud (AWS included).

plus supports bigger boxes, higher concurrency, longer timeouts (24hr).

disclaimer: i work at E2B

billconan 1 day ago||
does it have gpu support?
binsquare 1 day ago||
check this out https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm

will have a hosted platform soon with GPU support (vulkan)

apitman 1 day ago||
Can confirm smolvm accelerated Vulkan compute worked great in my tests. Excellent project.
bitlad 1 day ago|||
It is supposed to be a sandbox that you can invoke from agent, langchains of the world, coding agents etc.
redrove 1 day ago|||
No, it doesn’t seem like it.
esseph 1 day ago||
Not that I can find in the docs anywhere. Compute only.
taikon 1 day ago||
How's this different from AWS firecracker?
taikon 1 day ago|
Since no one answered, I looked into it. Firecracker you have to provision yourself whereas microVMs are server less and AWS manages all the infra.
yiyingzhang 1 day ago||
How's this different from Firecracker?
tptacek 1 day ago||
Presumably it is Firecracker. It's just a different shape of offering, along with Lambda and Fargate, which are also Firecracker.
tekla 1 day ago|||
The literal first paragraph has a highlighted link that says this runs on Firecracker
simonw 1 day ago||
It's a product that runs on top of Firecracker.
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mkagenius 1 day ago|
Not so subtle plug for another sandbox provider, https://instavm.io :

Apart from the above features.

  1. We support more than 32GB disk (as a shareable device, ideal for agentic memory)

  2. We provide egress control

  3. We provide vault for secret injection (to counter prompt injection)

  4. Snapshot / forking.

  5. long lived sandboxes.
Everything supported in APIs and CLI for agents.

Can be used via - npx skills add instavm/skills