Temporal Orchestrates AlphaSense’s Secure Agent Sandboxes

Temporal is emerging as the durable control plane for production agents, while MicroVMs provide the isolation layer. This separation gives teams a practical way to make agent workloads resumable, disposable, and auditable.

• –Long-lived Temporal workflows manage MicroVM lifecycles based on usage, reducing idle compute costs.
• –Firecracker MicroVMs provide a stronger isolation boundary than shared-kernel containers for agents that execute code.
• –S3-backed workspaces separate durable state from disposable compute, improving recovery and operational flexibility.
• –Short-lived identity tokens and an outbound-only proxy limit both data access and network reach.
• –The pattern cleanly separates orchestration, sandboxing, storage, identity, and model routing—making each layer replaceable.