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When the agent dispatches its next tool call, the sandbox resumes instantly without requiring a full cold boot.","\u002Fapi\u002Fmedia\u002Fposts\u002Fbeyond-stateless-lambda-harnessing-microvms-for-isolated-ai-b3aea032\u002F8.webp",{"local":50},{"headline":53,"body":54,"imageUrl":55,"images":56},"Dynamic Vertical Scaling: Need to process a sudden","Dynamic Vertical Scaling: Need to process a sudden surge of data? MicroVMs can vertically scale up to 4x their baseline CPU and RAM on the fly during spike demands. 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