# Supabase — Persistent Storage and 97% Faster Cold Starts for Edge Functions

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2025-07-18
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/persistent-storage-for-faster-edge-functions
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21344-persistent-storage-and-97-faster-cold-starts-for-edge-functions
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase introduced persistent storage for Edge Functions, allowing S3-compatible buckets to be mounted as a directory, and reduced cold start times by up to 97% by moving initial script evaluation to a dedicated blocking pool. The changes are deployed in all regions.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://supabase.com/blog/persistent-storage-for-faster-edge-functions:

> Today, we are introducing Persistent Storage and up to 97% faster cold start times for Edge Functions.

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