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Reduce bandwidth costs with dm-cache: fast local SSD caching for network storage


Learn how Upsun solved costly inter-AZ bandwidth billing by implementing dm-cache with local SSDs, achieving 95% read traffic reduction and 30x performance improvement.

Customer orders disappearing after payment processing Inventory miscounts leading to overselling Financial transaction data corruption Regulatory compliance violations Our customers depend on transactional consistency, and write-through mode ensures every write operation is safely committed to our replicated Ceph storage before the application considers it complete. These improvements translate directly to cost savings through reduced inter-AZ bandwidth charges, while the performance gains provide a significantly better experience for applications running on our platform.

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