DigitalOcean now sells agent infrastructure: a per-second-billed Firecracker sandbox for AI coding agents plus a managed MCP gateway to 16,000+ tools. We break down pricing, how it compares to running agents on a cheap Droplet, and the lock-in you should care about.…
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