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Insights, updates, and deep dives from the Nirvana Labs team.
If your storage bill is mostly meter, you paid the expensive way. Clouds price capacity cheap and meter IOPS on top: 60% of the bill at 20K IOPS, 84% at 80K, 91% on io2. Which workloads hit the meter, what it costs them, and whether yours should move.
Why Nirvana is the High Performance Storage Cloud: purpose-built ABS with 20,000 sustained IOPS included, benchmarks against gp3 and io2, who runs on it, and what opens in Q4.
Storage-backed sandboxes save you twice: on idle, and on work you never redo. Fast disks. Persistent workspaces. Isolated sandboxes. And you pay for the work once. Run your agents on Nirvana.
Nirvana is the best place to run your AI agents. Faster storage, a smaller bill, and more billable work out of the same agents.
Our POC partner Quirq benchmarked Nirvana sandboxes against GKE and E2B on a "machine can disappear" test. Nirvana recovered every checkpoint. E2B lost them all.
New in the Nirvana API: Per-VM Metrics and Resource Filtering
Quirq benchmarked Nirvana, Google Kubernetes Engine and E2B agent sandboxes. Nirvana recovered all 5,501 checkpoints and released compute in 1.46 s, against 9.57 s on GKE. E2B recovered none.
Nirvana is now a BYOC option on Altinity.Cloud. This is the architecture behind it: Altinity manages everything from the database down to Kubernetes, Nirvana operates NKS and the infrastructure beneath it, and the stack was benchmarked before it ever went GA. Here's the layer-by-layer breakdown.
Nirvana's layer is high-performance block storage. ABS ships 20,000 baseline IOPS against AWS gp3's 3,000 default, bursting to 600,000, and in our own benchmarks runs 10.5x faster than gp3 on cold-read analytical queries.
Nirvana Agent Sandboxes are live. Nirvana is a BYOC option on Altinity.Cloud. Self-serve billing is on. And we published the most comprehensive agent sandbox comparison in the market. July was a big shipping month.
