E2B Moves Off Native Firecracker to Custom Sandbox Runtime
badphilosopher · x · 2026-08-14
E2B sandboxes have historically run on Firecracker microVMs, but the team has now built a custom runtime. Developed by experts with past microVM experience, this new runtime offers significant improvements on top of the general Firecracker architecture.
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