{"type":"post","id":"vercel-sandboxes-with-drives-start-2-4x-faster-4873e5","slug":"vercel-sandboxes-with-drives-start-2-4x-faster-4873e5","title":"Vercel Sandboxes with Drives start 2.4x faster.","description":"Vercel says Sandboxes that mount Drives now start faster: median creation time fell from 1.7 seconds to 0.7 seconds, while p95 fell from 2.2 seconds to 1.6 seconds.","retrieval_nugget":"Vercel says Sandboxes that mount Drives now start faster: median creation time fell from 1.7 seconds to 0.7 seconds, while p95 fell from 2.2 seconds to 1.6 seconds. The change is automatic, needs no SDK or configuration update, and leaves pricing unchanged. It matters where teams repeatedly create these environments.","published_at":"2026-11-02","updated_at":"2026-11-02","record_date":"2026-11-02","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["sandbox"],"entities":["Vercel","Vercel Sandbox","Vercel Drives"],"related_patterns":["agent-ready-software-exposes-capabilities"],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"Vercel reports Drive-enabled Sandbox startup is up to 2.4× faster: median creation time fell from 1.7s to 0.7s and p95 from 2.2s to 1.6s, with no configuration changes or pricing impact.","prior_refs":[],"source_url":"https://vercel.com/changelog/vercel-sandbox-with-drives-now-starts-up-to-2-4x-faster","source_urls":["https://vercel.com/changelog/vercel-sandbox-with-drives-now-starts-up-to-2-4x-faster"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:vercel-sandboxes-with-drives-start-2-4x-faster-4873e5","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/vercel-sandboxes-with-drives-start-2-4x-faster-4873e5/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/vercel-sandboxes-with-drives-start-2-4x-faster-4873e5.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/vercel-sandboxes-with-drives-start-2-4x-faster-4873e5.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/vercel-sandboxes-with-drives-start-2-4x-faster-4873e5.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/sandbox/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/sandbox/","title":"Sandbox","reason":"Explore the sandbox topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/sandbox.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/sandbox.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}