Ephemeral AWS Sandboxes: 80+ Isolated Environments at Half the Cost
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Giving every learner a shared environment is cheap and miserable — one person breaks it and everyone is blocked. Giving everyone a fixed, always-on instance is clean and expensive. This post is about a third option: per-user, production-like sandboxes on AWS that spin up on demand, clean themselves up, and cost about half what fixed-size instances would.