Vespa Cloud

Run Vespa in Production-Without the Operational Overhead

Vespa Cloud provides the infrastructure, automation, and support required to run Vespa applications reliably and efficiently in production environments.

Vespa Cloud

Vespa Cloud is a managed, production-ready platform for deploying Vespa applications at scale—developed and operated by the team behind Vespa. It removes the operational burden of managing infrastructure, automating everything from upgrades and security to performance tuning and support. With Vespa Cloud, you can focus on building and iterating on your application while relying on a robust, scalable foundation.

Serverless Operations

Operating Vespa at scale involves more than just spinning up nodes—it requires continuous availability, secure upgrades, fault detection, and resource optimization. Vespa Cloud automates routine operational tasks including:

  • Provisioning and managing dedicated hardware.
  • Configuring load balancers and certificates.
  • Replacing faulty nodes automatically.
  • Coordinating safe rollouts of application updates.
  • Performing in-place OS and Vespa upgrades without downtime.
  • Right-sizing resource allocation based on real-time load.

Vespa Cloud engineers monitor systems proactively and respond to critical issues 24/7, reducing operational risk and cost.

Performance Tuning & Support

Vespa Cloud includes access to the core Vespa team for operational and performance tuning:

  • Next-business-day support from Vespa developers.
  • Participation in the Vespa Tune-Up Program, offering periodic expert reviews.
  • Instrumentation for live performance diagnostics.

These capabilities help optimize both cost and application performance.

Automatic Continuous Deployment

Deploy updates confidently using the built-in CD pipeline:

  • Canary and test environments for safe rollout validation.
  • Write system and staging tests for safe deployments
  • In-place deployments with rolling restarts.
  • Automated hardware transitions with zero downtime.

Vespa Cloud provides full control over deployment timing and scope, ensuring safe upgrades even for mission-critical workloads.

Security by Default

Security in Vespa Cloud is handled by the Vespa team and includes:

  • Mutual TLS for encrypted internal communication.
  • Role-based access control for API and app-level operations.
  • OS and Vespa hardening with daily updates.

This eliminates the need to build and maintain custom security frameworks.

Autoscaling

Applications running in Vespa Cloud can automatically scale to match workload:

  • Stateless clusters scale in minutes.
  • Content clusters scale with data-aware rebalancing.
  • Define min/max resource boundaries for cost control.

Autoscaling ensures service quality while optimizing infrastructure spend.

Developer-Centric Workflow

The Vespa Cloud experience is designed for developers:

  • All deployment logic is defined in an application package.
  • Dev zones with cost control and auto-teardown.
  • Consistency with self-hosted deployment workflows.

Vespa Cloud accelerates experimentation and simplifies production readiness.

 

Vespa Cloud Value-Add

*On-premises Vespa deployment with support is available. Contact us for more details.

Resources

Vespa Cloud Deployment Guide

Follow these steps to deploy an application in the Vespa Cloud dev zone.

Vespa OSS Documentation

Learn how to create your first Vespa application in this Getting Started Guide.

Vespa Cloud Features

A summary of the key features you need to develop and run Vespa applications in production with confidence at the lowest possible cost.

Vespa Platform Key Capabilities

  • Vespa provides all the building blocks of an AI application, including vector database, hybrid search, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and support for large language models (LLM).

  • Vespa unifies search, recommendation, and personalization in one platform. This streamlined approach reduces complexity, accelerates development, and enables more cohesive, effective solutions—no more siloed thinking.

  • Build AI applications that meet your requirements precisely. Seamlessly integrate your operational systems and databases using Vespa’s APIs and SDKs, ensuring efficient integration without redundant data duplication.

  • Achieve precise, relevant results using Vespa’s hybrid search capabilities, which combine multiple data types—vectors, text, structured, and unstructured data. Machine learning algorithms rank and score results to ensure they meet user intent and maximize relevance.

  • Enhance relevance and personalization by leveraging Vespa’s real-time tensor operations. Go beyond keyword matching with support for vectors from text, images, location, and other complex data sources.

  • Enhance content analysis with NLP through advanced text retrieval, vector search with embeddings and integration with custom or pre-trained machine learning models. Vespa enables efficient semantic search, allowing users to match queries to documents based on meaning rather than just keywords.

  • Search and retrieve data using detailed contextual clues that combine images and text. By enhancing the cross-referencing of posts, images, and descriptions, Vespa makes retrieval more intelligent and visually intuitive, transforming search into a seamless, human-like experience.

  • Ensure seamless user experience and reduce management costs with Vespa Cloud. Applications dynamically adjust to fluctuating loads, optimizing performance and cost to eliminate the need for over-provisioning.

  • Deliver instant results through Vespa’s distributed architecture, efficient query processing, and advanced data management. With optimized low-latency query execution, real-time data updates, and sophisticated ranking algorithms, Vespa actions data with AI across the enterprise.

  • Deliver services without interruption with Vespa’s high availability and fault-tolerant architecture, which distributes data, queries, and machine learning models across multiple nodes.

  • Seamlessly handle increased demand with Vespa’s horizontal and vertical scaling capabilities, adding capacity on-demand to maintain peak performance during high-traffic periods.

  • Bring computation to the data distributed across multiple nodes. Vespa reduces network bandwidth costs, minimizes latency from data transfers, and ensures your AI applications comply with existing data residency and security policies. All internal communications between nodes are secured with mutual authentication and encryption, and data is further protected through encryption at rest.

  • Avoid catastrophic run-time costs with Vespa’s highly efficient and controlled resource consumption architecture. Pricing is transparent and usage-based.

Build Faster with Vespa Cloud

Run real-time AI search and inference at scale—without the infrastructure overhead. Built by the team behind Vespa, this fully managed platform handles upgrades, tuning, and security so you can focus on delivering fast, accurate, and flexible applications.