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Benchmarking Nirvana ABS vs AWS EBS gp3 and io2 with ClickBench and FIO TL;DR * Nirvana ABS is ~10–14× faster than AWS gp3 on cold-read analytical workloads * Nirvana ABS performs similarly to io2 (within 2× on ~98% of queries) * Nirvana ABS delivers ~20K sustained IOPS per VM in real
For a long time, infrastructure decisions usually came down to two options. You either ran your systems on a hyperscaler like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, or you ran them on bare metal servers in a datacenter. Those two models defined how most software infrastructure was built. Hyperscalers offered convenience
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And why Nirvana rebuilt the full cloud stack Latency is often discussed across different parts of infrastructure, making it unclear where delays actually occur. In reality, it rarely comes from a single component but accumulates across the entire stack—from the moment a request leaves your application to when the
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Compare your cloud spending across Compute, Storage, Networking on AWS vs Nirvana We’re excited to introduce the Nirvana Price Calculator. Cloud pricing today can be confusing. Between instance families, storage tiers, IOPS limits, networking charges, and different product configurations, it’s often difficult to understand what you are actually
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February was Infra IRL. We stepped out from dashboards and into rooftops, warehouses, and builder nights, bringing performance-first cloud into real conversations with real operators. Here’s what moved. 🇭🇰 Consensus Hong Kong — RWA Night We co-hosted the RWAfi: RAW Skyline Mixer with Pharos and partners during Consensus week. It’s
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January was a heads-down, shipping month. We launched Accelerated Block Storage (ABS), opened up our Silicon Valley data center, shipped product upgrade, Here’s what moved: ABS is Live ABS is our crypto-tuned block storage built for always-hot blockchain data. * 20K baseline IOPS (sustained) * up to 600K burst * sub-ms latency
Save up to 90%+ on io2 with ABS If you’ve built on traditional cloud block storage long enough, this will feel familiar: Pricing looks reasonable at first glance. Then you realise storage isn’t just storage - it’s IOPS, latency, and throughput, all priced separately. That’s when
Storage, compute, and nodes together Nirvana’s Silicon Valley data center (us-sva-2) is the first facility where we operate storage, dedicated compute, and nodes together in the same Tier III data center. This deployment brings Nirvana-owned storage racks, dedicated compute infrastructure, and bare-metal nodes into one physical environment. By keeping
The Backbone of the Always-Hot Cloud In the world of cloud infra, there is a "holy trinity" that defines every system: * Compute: Where instructions execute (the brain). * Storage: Where the data lives (the memory). * Network: How data moves between them. In the early days of computing, these three
Why always-on blockchain workloads break traditional storage — and how ABS was built to stay fast under continuous load. When we started designing Accelerated Block Storage (ABS), we didn’t begin with hardware specs or benchmark targets. We started with what users were experiencing in production. Teams running nodes, indexers, and