Drives for Vercel Sandbox in Private Beta
Vercel just shipped persistent storage for AI agents. Sandbox Drives let autonomous workflows retain state across disposable environments—critical infrastructure for production agent deployments.
Why it matters
Vercel is shipping infrastructure primitives designed for AI agent workflows at scale. Persistent, attachable storage that outlives sandbox lifecycles addresses a real pain point for autonomous systems that need to maintain context, dependencies, and outputs across multiple execution runs.
The key facts
12 to knowVercel Sandbox now supports persistent Drives in private beta
Drives have independent lifecycle from sandboxes—persist after sandbox stops
Use cases explicitly target agent workspaces and autonomous workflows
Currently supports single read-write mount per drive during beta
Not recommended for production data during beta
Available via SDK (@vercel/sandbox@beta) and CLI (sandbox@beta)
Vercel Sandbox Drives now in private beta
Persistent storage with independent lifecycle from sandbox compute
Single read-write mount per sandbox during beta
Use cases: agent workspace retention, dependency caching, build output management
Not recommended for production data during beta phase
SDK and CLI available for beta access
Go to the source
Vercel Blogvercel.com
Publisher excerpt: now supports drives in private beta. Drives are persistent, attachable storage with a lifecycle independent from any sandbox.Vercel Sandbox Create a drive once, then mount it at a configurable path when starting a sandbox. When the sandbox stops, the drive remains available to attach to a later…