Boat Puts Full VMs Behind Agent Fleets

The strongest idea behind boat is treating each agent like a developer with a real computer, not a disposable function sandbox.

• –Full VMs support Docker, systemd, databases, background services, and persistent state.
• –Snapshot-and-fork workflows make parallel coding agents easier to reproduce and recover.
• –The advertised $0.20/hour xlarge tier could be compelling for sustained agent workloads if capacity and performance hold at scale.
• –Boat supports up to 2,000 active sandboxes on self-serve plans, making fleet orchestration central to the product.
• –The main open questions are regional availability, isolation guarantees, and whether such low pricing remains durable as usage grows.