# AWS MicroVMs

5 Hacker News commenters recommended AWS MicroVMs and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Lets you run isolated sandboxes with snapshot and restore and RAM scaling. Critics say it is costly and lacks bandwidth and spending limits.

## Why people recommend it

- Snapshot and restore the VM (1 comments): "Nice thing about the microvm is that you can snapshot it and restore it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692314))
- Vertical RAM scaling (1 comments): "vertical scaling of the ram, which is a great feature that’s not very common" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689696))

## What people warn about

- Costly for what it delivers (2 comments): "Using this for a long lived developer environment would be extraordinarily expensive anyhow" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688931)) "they're charging hyperscaler prices without offering a hyperscaler level service" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690195))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Sprites](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sprites.md): 58 recommend
- [E2B](https://hackerapproved.com/p/e2b.md): 23 recommend
- [Deno Sandbox](https://hackerapproved.com/p/deno-sandbox.md): 21 recommend
- [Freestyle Sandboxes](https://hackerapproved.com/p/freestyle.md): 20 recommend
- [Agent37](https://hackerapproved.com/p/agent37.md): 15 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "AWS MicroVMs", https://hackerapproved.com/p/aws-microvms/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).