Instant VMs?

Question

I'm looking for a service that gives you a VM you can SSH into with 1 click.Think Digital Ocean, except even faster (no login), and they are ephemeral (destroyed after 60 minutes or so if you don't upgrade it to paid).When I was at Microsoft we prototyped this idea (called it "Azure Instant"), but years later still looks like it hasn't seen the light of day.Someone must have made this by now, right?

emmanueloga_ · Accepted Answer

This article about hosting firecracker on digitalocean comes to mind [1], although definitely not a service, but perhaps you may be able to glue together a similar solution that does exactly what you want?1: https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/01/23/firecracker--start-a-vm-in-l...

nwotnagrom · Answer

May not be exactly what you are looking for but Shells.com offers VMs with pre-installed OSs as well as the option to bring in your own image if you want.

smoldesu · Answer

Be more specific? Are you asking for a virtual machine or a VPS? Local or remote?

dataminded · Answer

Closest thing that I'm aware of is Google Colab and Repl.it

bartvk · Answer

Doesn&rsquo;t DO offer an API?

Instant VMs?

This article about hosting firecracker on digitalocean comes to mind [1], although definitely not a service, but perhaps you may be able to glue together a similar solution that does exactly what you want?
1: https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/01/23/firecracker--start-a-vm-in-l...

May not be exactly what you are looking for but Shells.com offers VMs with pre-installed OSs as well as the option to bring in your own image if you want.

Be more specific? Are you asking for a virtual machine or a VPS? Local or remote?

Closest thing that I'm aware of is Google Colab and Repl.it

Doesn’t DO offer an API?