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.
ScyllaDB Technology
Harnessing the full potential of ScyllaDB tablets combined with 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.
X Cloud is based on the latest version of ScyllaDB 2025.4
Key ScyllaDB X Cloud features include
Higher storage utilization: Since servers can be brought online and start serving traffic fast, clusters can run at around 90% storage utilization (compared to the more typical 70%). This reduces the number of servers required and lowers infrastructure costs.
Storage autoscaling: Users define the minimum CPU footprint for the cluster, and ScyllaDB automatically scales storage capacity to match.
Mixed node sizes: The combination of shard-per-core execution and tablets allows clusters to mix very large nodes (for example, 128 cores) with small ones (as few as 2 cores). This enables high utilization, simpler operations, and more granular scaling.
Advanced compression: Up to 80% better compression reduces both storage usage and network transfer volume. Faster data streaming: Data streaming can be up to 25X faster while sending nearly 3X less data across the network.
AWS I8g and I8ge performance gains: On ScyllaDB, moving to ARM Graviton4-powered I8g or I8ge instances delivers up to 2X throughput at the same price, along with higher usable storage from improved compression and utilization.
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