A cloud that is also an agent workplace
Platforms that host apps and agent sandboxes share one constraint — isolation must be a product feature, not a blog promise.
A cloud that is also an agent workplace
Public clouds used to optimize for “put my app on the Internet.” Agent workloads add a second job: safely let a coding harness cook without owning the customer’s laptop.
Systems tension
- App hosting wants sticky identity, volumes, and uptime.
- Agent execution wants disposability, checkpoints, and no long-lived secrets in the guest.
- Billing wants idle to be nearly free so “spin a sandbox per session” is default, not a luxury.
Design question for your own stack
If you build internal agents, are you buying a PaaS, or are you reinventing sandbox lifecycle, credential injection, and restore? Most teams accidentally invent the second while calling it a “wrapper script.”
Company-direction essay that frames the product bet: Turn And Face The Strange.