Cloudflare Containers rebuilt for agent sandboxes with 6x faster starts
Cloudflare rebuilt its Containers product to scale agent sandboxes. Containers now start six times faster, allow an agent to select each sandbox's image and instance type at runtime, and support filesystem snapshots in public beta, all controlled from a Durable Object.
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