PILLAR 01 · SNAPSHOT RESTORE
A create is a page-in, not a boot
Every sandbox is a full virtual machine with its own kernel. A template is the snapshot of a machine that was already running your start command; creating from it restores that snapshot, with memory arriving on demand as the machine touches it and the hot set preloaded from the template’s own warm-up runs. A 4 GB machine is up in 0.35 s median, 0.43 s at the 90th percentile (0.70 s at the 99th) measured at the platform; the public API and your round trip add a few hundred milliseconds. A resume from frozen is the same mechanism: 0.8 s median, 1.7 s at the 90th.