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Add additional callouts about resource provisioning and disposition in sandbox mode #8244

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added indexes and other callouts
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sandbox env additional callouts
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10 changes: 7 additions & 3 deletions src/pages/[platform]/deploy-and-host/sandbox-environments/setup/index.mdx
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You can use a personal cloud sandbox environment that provides an isolated development space to rapidly build, test, and iterate on a fullstack app. Each developer on your team can use their own disposable sandbox environment connected to cloud resources.

<Callout>

Cloud sandbox environments are not intended for production workloads.
**Cloud sandbox environments** are designed for development purposes and are not intended for production workloads. To accelerate deployments, Amplify utilizes **CDK hot swapping** where supported, enabling rapid updates to resources such as AWS Lambda functions and AWS AppSync resolver templates without requiring a full redeployment.

However, certain operations cannot be hot-swapped and require resource recreation to proceed:

- **Amazon DynamoDB GSI Operations:** In sandbox environments (but not in production), modifying or deleting a Global Secondary Index (GSI) is a time-intensive process. To simplify this, Amplify drops and recreates the table instead of modifying the index.
- **Amazon Cognito User Pool Changes:** Unsupported modifications, such as deleting a required field, result in Amplify dropping and recreating the user pool to ensure a consistent and functional configuration.


</Callout>

![How cloud sandbox environments work](/images/gen2/how-amplify-works/sandbox.png)

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