> it's fairly straightforward to partition / reduce / sandbox environments in Linux. Perhaps in some distros, but not so much elsewhere. > Do you need to touc

> it's fairly straightforward to partition / reduce / sandbox environments in Linux. Perhaps in some distros, but not so much elsewhere. > Do you need to touch AWS infrastructure from the same account, host, vm as you read email or surf the web? In short: Yes. > do these environments need full, direct internet access? Not sure what you mean by the environment, but in general, yeah - a whole bunch of tooling these days is basically unusable without internet access.