Overview - E2B Docs

Volumes are currently in private beta. If you’d like access, please reach out to us at support@e2b.dev.

Volumes provide persistent storage that exists independently of sandbox lifecycles. Data written to a volume persists even after a sandbox is shut down, and volumes can be mounted to multiple sandboxes over time. One volume shared across multiple sandboxes Each sandbox with its own volume Standalone usage via SDK When a volume is mounted to a sandbox, files can be read and written directly at the mount path. The SDK methods are meant to be used when the volume is not mounted to any sandbox. With E2B SDK you can:

Example

import { Volume, Sandbox } from 'e2b'

const volume = await Volume.create('my-volume')

const sandbox = await Sandbox.create({
  volumeMounts: {
    '/mnt/my-data': volume,
  },
})

from e2b import Volume, Sandbox

volume = Volume.create('my-volume')

sandbox = Sandbox.create(
    volume_mounts={
        '/mnt/my-data': volume,
    },
)

Known limitations

Volumes are in private beta and have limitations worth knowing about before you build on them, including file locking, performance on many small files, and file ownership. See Volumes beta limitations.

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