Is this just a fancy VPS like digital ocean with, https endpoint, snapshot and restore?
(Same thing goes for exe.dev)
* Near-instant creation
* Automatic spin-down scale-to-zero, so you're not paying for it when it's not in use.
If you're using these like we are internally, you've got like 2 dozen of them sitting around in the background sleeping. They're BIC disposable computers. "When in doubt just make another one."
Also "containers" always had the option to attach durable storage via bind mounts.
I still get confused by the "this isn't containers" but it's kind of similar.
Maybe I am just too caught up in semantics.
A VPS that is instant to boot, super simple automatic routing and https proxy, with snapshot and durable is a win regardless.