Milvus 2.4+ Architecture at a Glance Milvus 2.x is cloud-native by design: Key consequences: - Horizontal scale by adding query/data/index nodes. - Writes go to a message stream, not directly to storage — eventually consistent. - State lives in etcd + object storage; nodes are stateless. For small deployments, packs everything into one container. Don't run standalone in production a few million vectors. Zilliz Cloud (Managed Milvus) Use Zilliz Cloud if you don't want to run the dependencies yourself. Tiers: - Serverless — pay per read/write; cold starts on first query. - Dedicated — pinned co…