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Introducing Filestore agent volumes: fully managed storage for agent workspaces

From running build tools, to data analysis pipelines, to collaborative research, executing data-driven tasks is essential for any enterprise agent. Today, platform teams often stitch together custom workarounds to address agent storage requirements, which could include shuttling state back and forth between agent sandboxes and centralized storage or manually managing local disks and/or self-hosted file systems.

Introducing Filestore agent volumes: fully managed storage for agent workspaces

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From running build tools, to data analysis pipelines, to collaborative research, executing data-driven tasks is essential for any enterprise agent.

Purpose-built storage for AI agent workspaces Autonomous agents require isolated runtime environments to safely execute dynamic code, install third-party packages, and run tools without putting host...

As organizations scale agent sandboxes to thousands or even millions of concurrent sessions, storage must evolve to overcome these trade-offs and meet the needs of these dynamic workloads, which require...

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From running build tools, to data analysis pipelines, to collaborative research, executing data-driven tasks is essential for any enterprise agent. However, as agent fleets scale, these approaches force difficult trade-offs between cold-start latency, operational complexity, and the cost of idle, pre-allocated storage. While Agent Substrate on GKE and GKE Agent Sandbox provide the dedicated compute environments needed to run high-density agent fleets, those sandboxes also need dedicated persistent workspaces to operate on.

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  • Today, platform teams often stitch together custom workarounds to address agent storage requirements, which could include shuttling state back and forth between agent sandboxes and centralized storage or...
  • As organizations scale agent sandboxes to thousands or even millions of concurrent sessions, storage must evolve to overcome these trade-offs and meet the needs of these dynamic workloads, which require...
  • To meet these emerging demands, we're expanding our AI storage portfolio and announcing availability of Filestore agent volumes, a new, fully managed capability purpose-built to deliver high-performance,...
  • Purpose-built storage for AI agent workspaces Autonomous agents require isolated runtime environments to safely execute dynamic code, install third-party packages, and run tools without putting host...

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