The issue with using raw VMs is you want fast startup. If you are running hundreds of pieces of code per hour as you develop, or have 10 or 20 agents running simultaneously it's much better to have something faster to start.
This uses Amazon's Firecracker on GCP to provide that.
AWS has something similar for its own Agent framework.
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This runs on GCP
The issue with using raw VMs is you want fast startup. If you are running hundreds of pieces of code per hour as you develop, or have 10 or 20 agents running simultaneously it's much better to have something faster to start.
This uses Amazon's Firecracker on GCP to provide that.
AWS has something similar for its own Agent framework.