A demo of Zilliz Cloud, how to get started and how it can automatically scale as you ingest more and more data for AI Applications.

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June 2025
Zilliz Cloud Monthly Technical
Review

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Agenda
What is Zilliz Cloud?
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Product Demo
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How to get help
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Milvus is an Open-Source Vector Database to
store, index, manage, and use the massive
number of embedding vectors generated by
deep neural networks and LLMs.
contributors
283
stars
35.5K
active instances
100M
forks
3.2K
+
Zilliz Cloud is built on Milvus, the most widely-adopted
vector database

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BRING YOUR OWN CLOUD
Zilliz Cloud BYOC
For Private VPCs
Milvus
Most widely-adopted open
source vector database
SELF MANAGED SOFTWARE
Zilliz Cloud
AI Powered Search that is
performant and scales
FULLY MANAGED SERVICE
Set up Once: Common API across all products regardless of architecture
Zilliz Offerings
Coming Soon!

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Milvus Data Model
Primary Key Partition Key Fixed Field Dynamic Field Vector Field ROW ID Timestamp
Reserved by the System
● Uniquely identifies
an entity
● Varchar or Int64
● User defined or
auto-generated
● Optional
● User defined or
auto-generated
● Optimizes search
by narrowing
queries to relevant
partitions
● Pre-defined
● Supported data
types: Numeric,
Varchar, JSON,
Array
● Roadmap support
for: Set,
Geolocation
● Supports optional
fields without
schema changes
● Stored as key-value
pairs
● Allows scalar
filtering on dynamic
fields
● Stored in a JSON
string
● Dense Float32,
Float16, BFloat16
● Sparse
● Binary
● 10 vector fields per
entity can be
defined
● Used as
Multi-Version
Concurrency
Control MVCC) and
concurrency
guarantee
The same data model for
for Milvus Lite, Standalone,
Distributed and Zilliz Cloud

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SUPERIOR AI POWERED SEARCH
Cardinal Search
Engine
10X faster than Milvus, AIPowered
AutoIndex, Optimal Search Strategies,
Zero Manual Tuning
HIGH PERFORMANCE & SCALE
Cloud Native
Database
Distributed Architecture for Stability,
Seamless Scalability and
Cost-Efficient Growth
UNCOMPROMISING DATA
SECURITY
Enterprise Ready
Platform
Battle-Tested: Delivering Reliable
Performance and Enterprise-Grade
Security
UNCOMPROMISING DATA
SECURITY
Enterprise Ready
Platform
Battle-Tested: Delivering Reliable
Performance and Enterprise-Grade
Security
Introducing Zilliz Cloud

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Unified Graph-IVF
hybrid solution with
configurable storage
enables flexible trade-
offs between capacity
and performance
Dynamically selects
the best search
strategy for optimal
performance based on
dataset and hardware
characteristics
Lightning-fast vector
searches through
advanced algorithms,
low-level kernel
optimizations, and
CPU metric analysis
AutoIndex
Algorithm Calculation
Index
Builder
Index
Searcher
Graph-IVF Index Structure
Calculator
Quantizer
Refiner
Storage
Outperform Milvus with
a 50% capacity
increase and up to 10x
performance boost
through engineering
innovations
Cardinal
Search Engine
Fast. Configurable. Smart.

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Enterprise Ready
Go beyond Milvus with essential security
features for a enterprise ready platform
Security: Safeguard data integrity and privacy
Build trust and put your vector data to work with
enterprise-grade security and compliance with a
multi-layered security approach
Run Anywhere: Deploy across any environment
Deploy Zilliz as SaaS across AWS, GCP, and
Azure, or opt for BYOC (bring your own cloud) to
manage data within your VPC
Resilient: Power all your vector search apps
with resilience
Maintain high availability of your clusters with
our 99.95% uptime SLA, multi-AZ / region
clusters and robust disaster recovery
• SSO support via SAML and OAuth 2.0
• RBAC and authority management
• End-to-end encryption in transit
• Physically isolated dedicated clusters
Backup and
Disaster Recovery
• IP address access control
• Private endpoint
• No direct VPC access
Customer data is
encrypted at rest

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Support Model & SLA
Technical support included in subscription
Fully managed service benefits
SLA commitments and guarantees

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Technical Topic
Discussion

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Illustration Topics
• Scalable Architecture
• Intuitive Collections UI
• Security Best Practices & Data Governance
• Private Link
• TLS by default
• IP allow lists
• RBAC with Privileges
• Recently added features
• Advanced tooling: Zero Downtime Migrations
• Advanced tooling: Flexible Alerts
• Admin Support: Self-Directed BYOC GCP | AWS only
• Milvus 2.6.0-rc1!

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Cloud-native SaaS doesnʼt equal an on prem solutions
Open Source
Software
On Prem
Solution
Fully Managed
Service
Data Migration ❌ ❌ ✔
Data Backup ❌ ❌ ✔
Use case-based performance tuning ❌ ❌ ✔
Auto-scaling ❌ ❌ ✔
Scaling w/o downtime ❌ ❌ ✔
Capacity Planning ❌ ❓ ✔
Software Patching & Upgrade ❌ ❓ ✔
Kubernetes/ Orchestrator ❌ ✔ ✔
Infrastructure ❌ ✔ ✔

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Getting Started with Zilliz Cloud
Understand your use case to determine
● Your Zilliz Offering | Performance, Capacity, or Extended Capacity
Optimized
● Migration strategy | Live Sync vs Offline Backup options
● Multi Tenancy requirements
● Target performance metrics (e.g. latency, recall)

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QUESTIONS?