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Tencent Cloud Open-Sources CubeSandbox, a Sub-60ms Secure Sandbox for AI Agents

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Tencent Cloud open-sourced CubeSandbox, a Rust-based sandbox using KVM and RustVMM for hardware-level isolation of AI-generated code. It achieves cold starts under 60ms with less than 5MB memory overhead per instance, enabling thousands of concurrent sandboxes on a single machine. The tool is API-compatible with E2B, allowing developers to migrate to local hosting by changing an environment variable.

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While impressive on paper, the real test will be adoption and whether the sub-60ms claim holds under heavy concurrent workloads in production.
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