DIGITALOCEAN MICROVMS: FAST, ISOLATED COMPUTE FOR YOUR AI AGENT INFRASTRUCTURE

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DigitalOcean has released MicroVMs in public preview, offering isolated virtual machines that pause when idle and resume in milliseconds. The service costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour and $0.0085 per GiB-hour for compute, billed per second, while paused instances only incur storage fees. MicroVMs are built on the open-source Firecracker platform and are designed for workloads like coding agents, sandboxes, and CI/CD runners.