“I am sure there would be clients that found a forgotten test bucket or idle instance on a cloud bill months later. Such clients will appreciate an environment that vanishes when the work is done,” Chaturvedi added.
The bigger advantage of the service, however, will be for developers using AI coding agents, according to Advait Patel, senior site reliability engineer (SRE) at Broadcom.
“Agents work in loops: write code, run it, see the error, fix it, repeat. When every loop hits real AWS, you wait on provisioning, you pay for resources, and you clean up whatever the agent forgot to delete. Moving that loop to a laptop cuts each cycle from minutes to seconds,” Patel said.
