Release notes

Zilliz Cloud v1.0.0

Release date: 2023-03-06

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Zilliz Cloud 1.0.0. This release raises the standard of vector database services for usability, security, performance, and capability to a new stage, bringing you a state-of-the-art vector database experience built for everyone.

Billion-scale collection support

With this release, Zilliz Cloud has pushed the capacity limit of vector databases to billion-scale. Now enterprise users can create 32 CU database instances (for both performance-optimized CU and capacity-optimized CU) through the Zilliz Cloud web interface.

For users who require larger instances for PoC or production deployment, please contact us to obtain instances up to 256 performance-optimized CUs (which can serve 1.3 billion 128-dimensional vectors) or 128 capacity-optimized CUs (which can serve 3 billion 128-dimensional vectors).
Performance improvement

Zilliz Cloud 1.0.0 is built based on Milvus 2.2.3. With Milvus 2.2.3, we have achieved a 2.5x reduction in search latency compared to the original Milvus 2.0.0 release. Having a lower latency is beneficial for all users, but is key when dealing with real-time information retrieval systems, such as recommendation systems, image/video/text search, and question answering.

Through our testing under an identical environment, we saw a 4.5x increase in QPS with Milvus 2.2.3 compared to 2.0.0. Due to this increase, Milvus is now even more hardware- and cost-efficient, which is key in building large-scale vector search platforms.

For more details, please see our whitepaper.
Zilliz Cloud on GCP

We are pleased to announce that Zilliz Cloud is now available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Our services are designed to offer top experiences and meet the diverse requirements of various users, ranging from startups to large enterprises. With just a few clicks, you can deploy managed vector database instances on GCP.

For now, the us-west1 region (the Dalles, Oregon) is available. The cost per CU for our services on GCP is $0.215 per hour for both performance-optimized and capacity-optimized types, and the storage cost is $0.02/GB per month.

New to Zilliz Cloud on GCP? Welcome aboard. You can get started today with a 30-day free trial.
AWS Marketplace

We are excited to announce that Zilliz Cloud is now available on AWS Marketplace, making it easier than ever to access our fully-managed vector database services on AWS. This integration couldn’t come at a better time, as demand for AI applications continues to grow. With Zilliz Cloud on AWS Marketplace, any user can now build and scale their AI applications with ease.

One of the benefits of this integration is the ability to manage products seamlessly. Billing, cancellations, refunds, and more can all be managed and tracked on your user’s AWS account. This feature alone saves you time and hassle, streamlining the entire process.

Another advantage is the ability to view costs through AWS Cost Explorer. With this tool, you can easily track your expenses and gain insight into your billing and cost management processes.
Rolling upgrade

We are pleased to announce that Zilliz Cloud now supports rolling upgrades. For Milvus users of the open-source version, there are a variety of maintenance tasks that must be performed periodically to ensure system health. However, maintenance work on a production system can be risky. Typically, maintenance work is performed during scheduled downtime, which requires taking the database offline and suspending normal business operations. Unfortunately, today’s users are intolerant of prolonged periods of downtime.

With your vector databases deployed on Zilliz Cloud, you don’t need to worry about scheduled maintenance anymore. Simply set up a maintenance window and focus on your business, while we handle the rest. In most cases, service downtime due to the rolling upgrade will be less than 1 minute per month.
Backup and restore

We are excited to announce the support of backup and restore for databases on Zilliz Cloud. Data loss can happen to anyone, at any time. Whether it’s due to a hardware failure, a software glitch, or even human error, the consequences can be devastating. That’s why it’s critical to have a reliable backup and recovery solution for databases in place.

With the new backup and restore feature, you can now easily back up your database and restore it in case of an unexpected loss.
Recycle bin

Data security is always our top priority. With this release, we are introducing the recycle bin on Zilliz Cloud, which makes your data even safer. Now, in the following cases, your database/collection will be moved to the recycler bin, and you can recover the data at any time in the next 30 days:
- Databases dropped by users.
- Databases that are automatically deleted due to prolonged inactivity in free trials.
- Service suspension due to outstanding fees.
Database migration from open-source Milvus

With this release, we are introducing database migration toolkits. Now open source Milvus users can easily migrate their local databases to Zilliz Cloud, freeing themselves from the burden of system maintenance. The migration tool is compatible with both Milvus 0.9.x through 1.x and 2.x. With only two steps, you can easily migrate your database, regardless of the Milvus version, into Zilliz Cloud.

For more details, please refer to the database migration guide.
Other changes
- The new invoice page now displays the detailed cost of different resource usages and services, as well as how credits have been used and any discount rules that apply.
- Improved data preview experience.
- Some bugs have been fixed to improve stability and memory utilization.

Zilliz Cloud v0.11.0

Release date: 2023-02-13

Email notifications

In this release, the email notification feature is reinforced. You will receive email notifications at the following events:
- Account verification, suspension, reactivation, etc.
- Credit balance and expiration
- Billing and payment
- Database inactivities
- Upcoming system maintenance
- Subscribed resource alerts
- Confirmed receipt of user feedback
Inline guidance for beginners

In this release, the inline guidance for beginners is greatly improved for fast onboarding. Now you can finish the online tutorial within five minutes, with no background knowledge required. Enjoy it!

Zilliz Cloud v0.10.0

Release date: 2023-01-10

Data preview

In this release, Zilliz Cloud offers a data preview capability. You can find the Data Preview feature tab on each collection page. The preview table lets you view all the values of a set of sampled entities in a collection, which makes it easy to verify your data.

Along with the data preview capabilities, you can select any of the vectors in the preview table and use them as the query vector. This allows you to quickly verify the neighboring data in your collection.
Demo dataset

Zilliz Cloud now provides a demo dataset to help beginners get familiar with the functionalities of vector databases. The demo dataset is derived from a Kaggle dataset. It contains details of over 5,000 articles published between Jan 2020 to August 2020 in prominent publications.

Now, you can experience the whole set of vector database functionalities easily, with no extra effort needed for data preparation. Enjoy it!

Zilliz Cloud v0.9.0

Release date: 2022-12-05

New UI for Zilliz Cloud services

With this release, we are pleased to introduce the new UI for Zilliz Cloud. A tree-based navigation structure in the brand-new UI offers you much more intuitive guidance. All the functionalities are organized into five categories:
- The Databases function set provides one-stop capabilities for database-level and collection-level management.
- The Admin function set offers functionalities for access control and resource monitoring.
- The Activities function set gives a detailed view of system events.
- The Billing function set provides the functionalities for payment and invoice management.
- The System Settings function set provides all system configuration entries.
All these functions are now available in a 90-day free trial on Zilliz Cloud. Try Now!
Support AWS region US-East-2

We are pleased to announce that Zilliz Cloud now supports service deployment on a new AWS region US-East-2. Currently, the supported regions are AWS US-West-2 and US-East-2.
Private link

Private link provides a private connection from your application to a database. The private link solution caters to the need for private, more secure, and more efficient connectivity to Zilliz Cloud services.

To set up a database connection with a private link, you need to register your VPC endpoint with Zilliz Cloud to create a private link and map the link to the DNS name of the endpoint. Learn more.
Data import from large files

We are pleased to announce that Zilliz Cloud now supports data import from large files. You can bulk-insert data into your collection from a file up to 512 MB. The files can be located either in an S3 bucket or on your local disk. Learn more.

Zilliz Cloud v0.8.0

Release date: 2022-11-18

Opens to the public and no invitation is needed to register with Zilliz Cloud.
Supports big-data CUs.
Supports allocating a maximum of 32 CUs to a database.
Supports importing data from local files and AWS S3 buckets.
Supports auto-indexing and you do not need to select indexing types anymore.
Supports settings up resource monitors for QPS and query latency.
Improves database creation performance by five times.
Optimizes the UI performance for better user experience.

Zilliz Cloud v0.7.0

Release date: 2022-09-15

Upgrades the collection view UI.
Upgrades the vector search UI.
Supports signup with Google.
Supports system maintenance settings.

Zilliz Cloud v0.6.0

Release date: 2022-08-30

Supports larger standard vector database.
Supports managing collections on Cloud UI.
Supports managing index on Cloud UI.
Supports executing vector search on Cloud UI.
Disables database access from the Internet by default for security concerns.
Improves whitelisting experience.
Supports credits.
Improves Cloud UI for better interaction.
Improves internal system for better stability and performance.

Zilliz Cloud v0.5.0

Release date: 2022-08-01

Supports viewing collections on Cloud UI.
Supports viewing collections schema on Cloud UI.
Supports creating collections on Cloud UI.
Supports deleting collections on Cloud UI.
Supports viewing index on Cloud UI.
Improves Cloud UI for better interaction.

Zilliz Cloud v0.4.0

Zilliz Cloud is a cloud-native service for Milvus, you can set up your Milvus cluster to unlock high-performance similarly search with no extra effort needed for infrastructure management. We are currently in preview and if you have any questions, please contact us at support@zilliz.com.

Release date: 2022-07-22

New features

Supports creating a vector database on AWS region: us-west-2 Oregon.
Supports all Core Milvus features.
Supports suspending and resuming vector databases.
Supports viewing basic vector database metrics.
Supports database user management.
Supports creating multiple projects.
Supports setting IP Whitelist at the project level.
Supports viewing user operational events.
Supports enabling MFA with email.

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