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iad1 stays the default, joined by sfo1, cle1 and cdg1, with region choice on all plans and failover configuration limited to Pro and Enterprise. Set it in Settings, via vercel project update my-project --sandbox-region cdg1 --sandbox-failover-regions iad1,cle1, or by passing region and failoverRegions to Sandbox.create(). (Vercel) Matters if your agent's sandbox has been doing transatlantic round trips to your database.
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