Yes. Use cases are numerous. One would be if I want to fork someone’s GitHub to make a pull request without setting up a dev environment. I wish all GitHub projects had a “launch easyVM” button that would give me an ip to a micro instance for 24 hours that I could ssh into. Then I can edit some code, Run the tests (since all the dependencies should be there), push and submit a pull request, with the server auto destroying that night.
You should look into docker for this use case.
Thanks, I've used Docker a lot. Too slow. I want something like EasyDB. Instant. 1 second to get a new ephemeral VM with a preconfigured image. Under the hood it could be launching containers but my experience should be that of a vm user with ssh access.