Observed Signal · Mar 2, 2026 · Product Launch · Source: https://martechseries.com/feed/ · Impact: 3/5 · Sentiment: Positive
Zilliz Cloud Launches BYOC on Azure, Unifying Major Platforms
Zilliz announced general availability of Zilliz Cloud BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) on Microsoft Azure, completing support across the three major public clouds (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure). The BYOC option deploys a fully managed Milvus-based vector database inside a customer's own cloud account, aimed at preserving data control and compliance while reducing engineering overhead. The Azure launch enables compatibility with existing enterprise agreements, reserved capacity and governance frameworks, and offers an official Zilliz Cloud Terraform Provider for automated infrastructure-as-code deployments. Zilliz says every BYOC deployment includes the full Zilliz Cloud feature set and supports migration from Pinecone, Qdrant, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Weaviate, or self-hosted Milvus.
Expands enterprise options for managed vector databases by enabling BYOC across AWS, GCP, and Azure, reducing cross-cloud data movement and lowering barriers to AI adoption while preserving data control—important to organizations building AI-driven services but not a major platform policy change.
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- Zilliz announced general availability of Zilliz Cloud BYOC on Microsoft Azure.
- Zilliz Cloud BYOC is now available on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure.
- Zilliz claims it is the first managed vector database provider to support BYOC across all three major clouds.
- BYOC deploys a fully managed Milvus-based vector database inside a customer's own cloud account to preserve data sovereignty and compliance.
- Zilliz published an official Zilliz Cloud Terraform Provider and offers migration tooling from Pinecone, Qdrant, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Weaviate, and self-hosted Milvus.
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Zilliz Releases Milvus 3.0, Lake-Native Vector Database
Zilliz announced Milvus 3.0, a major technical release that makes the open-source Milvus vector database lake-native and expands its retrieval engine. Milvus 3.0 enables indexing and serving directly over object storage and open data formats, introduces a new manifest-based storage engine (Loon), External Collections for formats like Lance and Iceberg, snapshots, a Spark connector, and a more expressive retrieval stack including StructList for multi-vector retrieval and an optimized sparse index. The release is Apache 2.0 licensed, remains a graduated LF AI & Data project, supports Kubernetes/Docker and major cloud object stores, and is available via Python, Go, and Node.js SDKs. Zilliz Cloud will use Milvus 3.0 as its managed Vector Lakebase core.
Zilliz Launches Vector Lakebase for Unified AI Data Platform
Zilliz announced the public preview of Vector Lakebase on June 22, 2026. Available now on Zilliz Cloud, Vector Lakebase pairs the Milvus production vector database with a shared, lake-native storage foundation (built on Vortex) to enable zero-copy workflows across real-time serving, interactive discovery, and large-scale batch analytics. Key capabilities include tiered real-time serving tiers, on-demand pay-as-you-go search, a zero-copy External Collection mode for indexing Lance/Iceberg/Parquet/Vortex tables, full-spectrum AI search (dense/sparse vectors, text, JSON, geospatial), and unified lake-native storage with object-storage-aware indexes. Zilliz positions the product to remove data duplication and reduce cost/complexity for AI teams and cites existing Milvus/Zilliz Cloud customers and more than 10,000 enterprise users. The release emphasizes compute-that-scales-to-zero billing and integrations with third-party rerankers like Cohere and Voyage AI.
Zilliz Cloud Launches New AWS Region in Ireland
Zilliz Cloud has expanded its European infrastructure by adding a new AWS region in Ireland, joining its existing Frankfurt deployment. The availability aims to give European customers greater control over data residency and simplify GDPR compliance while maintaining performance and deployment flexibility. Zilliz Cloud now operates across 30 cloud regions globally with deployments on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The Ireland region is live and available to all customers via the Zilliz Cloud console; new users can create free accounts and migrating teams can use Zilliz’s migration service to move clusters or datasets.
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