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A box on BoxLite Cloud is a microVM you address by name or id from anywhere your API key reaches. You choose its image and its size when you create it, and the platform decides when it stops and whether it wakes again.
A Cloud box stops itself after 15 idle minutes by default, and work running inside the box does not count as activity. A long unattended job can be stopped mid-run. See Lifecycle before you start one.

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Images

The three images the console offers, and what an image reference looks like from code.

Sizes

The preset sizes, the per-box ceilings for your organization, and the SDK sizing fields.

Lifecycle

Stop when idle, wake on access, delete after stopping. The settings most likely to surprise you.

From code

The full create-start-use-remove cycle, reusing a box by name, and environment variables.

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