08/20/2026
✨ KV Cache Offloading to Object Storage Transforms AI Inference ✨
Every return visit to an LLM conversation forces the model to recompute context from scratch, burning GPU cycles and slowing response times.
Cloudian's new benchmark, run with NVIDIA Dynamo, shows there's a faster path.
By offloading KV Cache to Cloudian HyperStore, an S3-native object storage platform with RDMA acceleration, we measured:
📊 Up to 20x lower Time to First Token vs. full recompute at 120K tokens
⚡️ A 31.77% mean latency advantage for RDMA vs. TCP across all context lengths tested
🚀 Flat, scalable retrieval latency — even as context windows grow to 128K+ tokens
The takeaway: the storage tier is becoming a first-class part of inference architecture. For multi-turn conversations, RAG pipelines, and long-context workloads, how fast you can recall model state is just as important as how fast you can compute it.
Read more for the full breakdown on methodology, results by context length, and what it means for GPU utilization at scale: https://bit.ly/452X4d0