Meilisearch Cloud now supports sharding and replication - letting your search infrastructure scale horizontally, stay available during updates, and serve users from the nearest node. Here is what that means and who it is for.

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Meilisearch Cloud now supports horizontal sharding and replication for enterprise search deployments. Sharding distributes large datasets across multiple nodes to handle data volumes beyond what a single instance can serve, while replication keeps identical copies across nodes for high read availability and geo-distribution. The two features are composable — teams can run sharding only, replication only, or both simultaneously (e.g., 5 shards × 2 replicas = 10 nodes). Currently available as an enterprise add-on configured by the Meilisearch team, with a self-serve UI and improved cluster observability on the roadmap.

Scale without limits: introducing sharding & replication in Meilisearch Cloud

Sharding: horizontal scaling for large datasets

Replication: high read availability and geo-distribution