How to Measure Sandbox Performance for AI-Driven Development

Sandboxed environments are now core infrastructure for agentic and AI-assisted development. They create short-lived, fully provisioned replicas of production systems — complete with policies, permissions, and data boundaries — so developers and agents can experiment, test, or deploy safely. The value isn’t just avoiding configuration drift; it’s enabling reproducibility, isolation, and security at scale.

Most teams, however, judge sandbox performance by a single metric: Startup time. How fast can the environment spin up? It’s an…