On August 25, Alibaba Cloud made an announcement stating that, commencing at 00:00 on September 7, 2026, the Cloud Sandbox Snapshot functionality will transition into a phase of official commercial billing. This particular feature allows for the capture of comprehensive snapshots of operational sandboxes, encompassing both memory and disk states. Moreover, it facilitates the swift recovery or cloning of numerous new sandboxes within seconds, leveraging these snapshots. It proves to be highly applicable in various scenarios, including the resumption of long-running Agent tasks from breakpoints, enabling second-level cold starts for preheating environments, and supporting parallel cloning for exploratory purposes.
