Layer researchInfrastructure and compute
Vendor landscape
As of 2026-08-19. Vendor capability claims are vendor-published unless third-party sourced. Re-verify quarterly.
- Vendor / product
- AWS Bedrock AgentCore (Runtime, Gateway, Identity, Memory)
- Category
- Managed agent runtime
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- GA Oct 13 2025
- Notes
- Per-session microVMs, 8h sessions, no CPU charge on I/O wait; VPC/PrivateLink
- Vendor / product
- Azure AI Foundry Agent Service + Container Apps dynamic sessions
- Category
- Managed runtime + sandboxes
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Agent Service GA May 2025; sessions GA 2024
- Notes
- Hyper-V isolation; egress off by default
- Vendor / product
- Google Vertex AI Agent Engine
- Category
- Managed runtime
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- GA billing from Mar 2025
- Notes
- Memory Bank preview Jul 2025
- Vendor / product
- Cloudflare Agents SDK on Durable Objects
- Category
- Edge agent runtime
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- 2025
- Notes
- Stateful agent-per-object, hibernation, free idle
- Vendor / product
- E2B, Daytona, Modal
- Category
- Sandbox specialists
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- 2025 Series A funding; production
- Notes
- Firecracker/gVisor classes; sub-90ms container starts (Daytona)
- Vendor / product
- Anthropic sandbox-runtime (OSS)
- Category
- Sandbox tooling
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Open-sourced Oct 2025
- Notes
- Proxy-enforced domain allowlists [vendor]
- Vendor / product
- Kubernetes Agent Sandbox (CNCF)
- Category
- K8s isolation primitive
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Announced Nov 2025; not production-ready (Apr 2026)
- Notes
- gVisor with Kata support
- Vendor / product
- Temporal, Restate, DBOS, Inngest
- Category
- Durable execution
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Temporal $300M Series D Feb 2026; OpenAI SDK integration
- Notes
- The checkpoint-vs-durable-execution distinction matters
- Vendor / product
- llm-d (CNCF), vLLM, KServe
- Category
- K8s-native serving
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- llm-d to CNCF Mar 2026; DRA GA in K8s 1.34
- Notes
- Relevant only when self-hosting
- Vendor / product
- Entra Agent ID; Okta XAA/EMA; SPIFFE/WIMSE
- Category
- Workload identity
- Maturity (Aug 2026)
- Entra preview May 2025; XAA 25+ ISVs Jun 2026; WIMSE to IESG Jul 2026
- Notes
- Identity is the R10 join point
Agent-washing watch: "agent infrastructure" that is a VM with a queue; sandbox claims without isolation class stated (container vs microVM); runtime pricing that bills idle wait.
Source: research/R01-infrastructure/vendors.md in the evidence repository behind this site.