Depot CI and Sandboxes now run on Depot Metal

Depot Metal, the next generation of our compute and storage platform, is now live. Depot CI workloads and Depot Sandboxes are already running up to 50% faster on Depot Metal, according to our initial benchmarks. There's nothing to configure and no migration on your end: you get the faster performance at no additional cost.

Depot Metal runs microVMs on bare-metal EC2 instances powered by 5th-generation AMD EPYC processors, with a dedicated storage tier backed by high-performance NVMe local SSDs and S3. This unified architecture gives us direct control over every tier, from the CPU and hypervisor down to storage, and lets us move accelerators and job observability out of the job VM and onto the host.

GitHub Actions runners and container builds will move to Depot Metal over the next few months. Read more in the launch post.