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Comment by ushakov

8 hours ago

why? because there’s a huge market demand for Sandboxes. no one would be building this if no one would be buying.

disclaimer: i work at E2B

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?

  • making a local sandbox using docker is easy, but making them work at high volume and low latency is hard

  • 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

    • > 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.