DigitalOcean MicroVMs: the compute foundation for building your AI agent infrastructure (private preview)

DigitalOcean has introduced MicroVMs in invite-only private preview as isolated, lightweight virtual machines designed for AI agents and other bursty, short-lived workloads. Built on open-source Firecracker technology, each MicroVM runs a container image in its own hardware-virtualized environment with a separate kernel, providing stronger isolation than shared-kernel containers. MicroVMs automatically pause after a configurable idle period and resume on the next request with memory, files, and processes preserved, while checkpoints allow teams to create new instances from prewarmed environments. The service is intended for uses including agent coding workspaces, long-running workflows, reinforcement learning environments, per-tenant tools, untrusted-code sandboxes, ephemeral data stores, and CI/CD jobs. DigitalOcean says the technology already supports its Managed Agents platform, while direct MicroVM access is aimed at teams that want to build and control their own agent infrastructure or code-execution services.

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