Commoditized: The Agent Sandbox Layer Has Become a Utility — and the Moat Is Moving

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Autonomous agents are moving from experimental sandboxes to production-grade infrastructure, forcing a structural shift in how we isolate execution. The commoditization of per-agent isolation has moved from niche experimentation to a baseline requirement — and a multi-vendor convergence is now visible across the stack. This is not merely about the proliferation of sandboxes. It is about the fundamental decoupling of execution from the control plane. Firecracker microVMs have become the industry standard for high-density, secure isolation, a status earned through proven performance at scale by AWS Lambda since 2018.
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