Wow, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London was a unbelievable time! Our Azure Storage group was thrilled to trade insights and success tales at this vibrant group occasion. Should you missed it, don’t fear! We’re right here to share what we confirmed off on the con: how we’re enhancing efficiency, cost-efficiency, and AI
Wow, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London was a unbelievable time! Our Azure Storage group was thrilled to trade insights and success tales at this vibrant group occasion. Should you missed it, don’t fear! We’re right here to share what we confirmed off on the con: how we’re enhancing efficiency, cost-efficiency, and AI capabilities to your workloads on Azure.
Optimize your open-source databases with Azure Disks
Open-source databases akin to PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and MySQL are among the many mostly deployed stateful workloads on Kubernetes. For situations that demand extraordinarily low latency and excessive enter/output operations per second (IOPS)—akin to working these databases for transactional workloads—Azure Container Storage allows you to faucet into native ephemeral non-volative reminiscence specific (NVMe) drives inside your node pool. This supplies sub-millisecond latency and as much as half one million IOPS, making it a robust match for performance-critical use circumstances. In our upcoming v1.3.0 replace, we now have made important optimizations particularly for databases.
In comparison with the earlier v1.2.0 model, you possibly can anticipate as much as a 5 instances improve in transactions per second (TPS) for PostgreSQL and MySQL deployments. Should you’re searching for the most effective stability of sturdiness, efficiency, and price for storage, Premium SSD v2 disks stays our really helpful default for database workloads. Premium SSD v2 presents a versatile pricing mannequin that expenses per gigabyte and consists of beneficiant baseline IOPS and throughput free of charge out of the field. You possibly can dynamically scale IOPS and throughput as wanted, permitting you to fine-tune efficiency whereas optimizing for price-efficiency.
At KubeCon, we demonstrated how builders may readily make the most of native NVMe and Premium SSD v2 Disks to construct their extremely accessible and performant PostgreSQL deployments. If you wish to comply with alongside your self, take a look at the newly republished PostgreSQL on AKS documentation under!
Speed up your AI workflows with Azure Blob Storage
Constructing an AI workflow calls for scalable storage to host large quantities of information—whether or not it’s uncooked sensor logs, high-resolution photographs, or multi-terabyte mannequin checkpoints. Azure Blob Storage and BlobFuse2 with the Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver present a seamless technique to retailer and retrieve this knowledge at scale. With BlobFuse2you entry blob storage simply as a persistent quantity, treating it like an area file system. With the newest model of Blobfuse2 – 2.4.1, you possibly can:
Velocity up mannequin coaching and inference: BlobFuse2’s enhanced streaming assist reduces latency for preliminary and repeated reads. Utilizing BlobFuse2 to load giant datasets or fine-tuned mannequin weights straight from blob storage into native NVMe drives on GPU SKUs successfully optimizes the effectivity of your AI workflow.
Simplify knowledge preprocessing: AI workflows typically require frequent transformations—akin to normalizing photographs or tokenizing textual content. By utilizing BlobFuse2’s file-based entry, knowledge scientists can preprocess and retailer outcomes straight in blob storage, holding pipelines environment friendly.
Guarantee knowledge integrity at scale: When dealing with petabytes of streaming knowledge, integrity checks matter. BlobFuse2 now consists of improved CRC64 validation for knowledge saved on native disk, making certain dependable reads and writes, even when working with distributed AI clusters.
Parallel entry of large datasets: Carried out parallel downloads and uploads to considerably lower the time required for accessing giant datasets saved in blobs. This enhancement permits for sooner knowledge processing and elevated effectivity, making certain optimum utilization of GPU sources and enhancing coaching effectivity.
Scale your stateful workloads with Azure Information
Steady Integration and Steady Supply/Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, one of many fashionable stateful workloads, want shared persistent volumes to host artifacts within the repository, the place Azure Premium Information is the storage of selection on Azure. These artifacts are saved in small information that incur heavy metadata operations on a file share. To hurry up CI/CD workflows, the Azure Information group just lately introduced the final availability of metadata caching for premium SMB file shares. This new functionality reduces metadata latency by as much as 50 p.c, benefiting metadata-intensive workloads that sometimes host many small information in a single share. At KubeCon, we showcased how metadata caching can speed up repetitive construct processes on GitHub, check with the repo and check out it out your self.
For much less performance-demanding stateful workloads, Commonplace Information with the brand new Provisioned v2 billing mannequin presents higher value predictability and management as shared persistent volumes. The Provisioned v2 mannequin shifts from usage-based to provisioned billing, permitting you to specify required storage, IOPS, and throughput with larger scale. Now you can develop your file share from 32 GiB to 256 TiB, 50,000 IOPS, and 5 GiB/sec throughput as your functions demand.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon was a beautiful alternative to straight work together with builders and be taught from our clients. As all the time, because of our clients and companions for contributing to the occasion’s worth and significance, and we look ahead to seeing you once more in November for KubeCon North America!
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