Per-user agent cloud VMs: how do you handle the wake-up wait vs cost tradeoff?
SnooPuppers9163 · reddit · 2026-11-16
A developer running each user's agent on its own small cloud machine stops idle VMs to save cost, but faces wake-up latency. Starting on page open instead of on click helped, yet quick users still notice. They ask peers: warm pool, snapshot-and-restore, or accept the wait with useful loading content? A real cost-vs-UX dilemma for anyone hosting per-user agents.
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