I am excited to announce the next step in our journey toward an amazingly fast, truly elastic, and cost-efficient ScyllaDB Cloud.
The new X Cloud product builds on the technical achievements of ScyllaDB and ScyllaDB Cloud engineering teams, delivering excellent scalability and efficiency.
Tablets Technology
Harnessing the full potential of ScyllaDB tablets to deliver:
- Scaling as fast as your infrastructure can grow
- Storage utilization of up to 90%
- Mixed instance types/sizes.⠀
Faster Infrastructure
We have optimized and parallelized the cluster deployment process to significantly reduce provisioning time. The data is distributed much faster, and the new nodes start serving in minutes.
Autonomous Scaling
With the new X Cloud Beta, we introduce autonomous scaling, a capability that continuously keeps clusters running at optimal storage efficiency, based on the data from the cluster monitoring.
Clusters scale in and out automatically to maintain up to 90% disk utilization, ensuring efficient resource use and cost control.
Customers can still reserve a minimum vCPU or storage capacity to ensure clusters never scale below a defined baseline—even if idle—so they’re ready for any planned workload spikes.
By combining these technologies, your cluster can now scale just-in-time, in precise increments, and be ready to serve requests from all nodes within minutes—while also optimizing storage utilization to save you even more.
For more information, I recommend reading the following X Cloud articles:
Availability
X Cloud Beta is available today in ScyllaDB Cloud for all customer accounts.
If you need documentation, you can always find it here: X Cloud Documentation.
Still Beta
We strongly recommend using X Cloud Beta only for testing and evaluation, not for production workloads.