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1. ATechG+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-02-03 20:47:59
I'm not saying sandboxes are not needed, I'm saying VMs/containers already provide the core tech and it's easy to DIY a sandbox. Would love to understand what value E2B offers over VMs?
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2. ushako+12[view] [source] 2026-02-03 20:56:41
>>ATechG+(OP)
we offer secure cloud VMs that scale up to 100k concurrent instances or more.

the value we sell with our cloud is scale, while our Sandboxes are a commodity that we have proudly open-sourced

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3. ATechG+f3[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-03 21:03:21
>>ushako+12
> we offer secure cloud VMs that scale up to 100k concurrent instances or more.

High scalability and VM isolation is what the Cloud (GCP/AWS, that E2B runs on) offers.

4. kommun+Df[view] [source] 2026-02-03 22:08:50
>>ATechG+(OP)
making a local sandbox using docker is easy, but making them work at high volume and low latency is hard
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5. ATechG+q81[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-04 04:20:25
>>kommun+Df
That's right. But they (E2B) rely on the underneath Cloud infra to achieve high scalability. Personally, I'm still not sure about the value they add on top of Cloud hosted VMs. GCP/AWS already offer huge discounts to startups, which should be enough for VM-based sandboxing of agents in the MVP phase.
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