Meilisearch Launch Week April 2026 recap: everything that shipped
Apr 20, 2026Maya Shin

Summary
This post announces the general availability of sharding and replication on Meilisearch Cloud. It details the use cases for horizontal scaling, high availability, and geographic replication. The composability of sharding and replication is highlighted, allowing for flexible configurations. The post also mentions that customers have been running production workloads on sharded Meilisearch for months, and this release brings that capability to all Cloud teams.
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