boat Boots 700 Agent VMs Under 10s

The impressive part is making full VMs cheap and fast enough for massive agent experiments, not the Minecraft demo itself. The test suggests boat is targeting agent infrastructure where flexibility and fleet scale matter more than container-style startup benchmarks.

• –700-machine orchestration exposes a real use case for agent factories and parallel evaluations
• –Snapshot-based startup makes persistent VM environments practical for bursty workloads
• –The claimed $6.45 VM cost for 15 minutes is compelling, though it remains a vendor-reported showcase
• –Full Ubuntu VMs offer broader tooling than constrained sandboxes, including Docker, desktops, and arbitrary processes
• –boat’s EU-only footprint and early-stage scale remain important production considerations