Expanded Z3 VM portfolio for I/O intensive workloads

Today, we are thrilled to announce the expansion of the Z3 Storage Optimized VM family with the general availability of nine new Z3 virtual machines that offer local SSD capacity ranging from 3 TiB to 18 TiB per VM, complementing existing Z3 VMs which offer 36TiB of Local SSD per VM. We are also very pleased to launch a Z3 bare metal instance, which includes up to 72 TiB of Local SSDs. Z3 VMs enable customers like Shopify, Tenderly and ScyllaDB to achieve impressive performance improvements for their high performance storage workloads by reducing the IO access latency by up to 35% compared to VM instances using previous-generation local SSDs. 

Z3 VMs are designed to run I/O-intensive workloads that require large local storage capacity and high storage performance, including SQL, NoSQL, and vector databases, data analytics, semantic data search and retrieval, and distributed file systems. The Z3 bare metal ...