When Kafka Growth Becomes a Budget Problem
Webinar
Teams running Kafka on throughput-based pricing have seen costs run 300% higher than an equivalent infrastructure-based deployment — and the gap widens as usage grows. That's the trap: the more value your teams pull from streaming data, the more you pay for the privilege.
Instaclustr's managed Kafka runs on infrastructure-based pricing — your cost reflects the cluster you provision, not the data volume moving through it. In this session, we'll show exactly where the crossover happens, what it costs platform teams who don't see it coming, and how to run the same math against your own workload.
Join us to find out whether your Kafka costs are about to become someone else's problem to explain — and how to get ahead of it.
What You'll Learn
- The throughput tier where infrastructure-based pricing overtakes throughput-based pricing — with the actual cost delta
- A sizing framework you can apply directly to your own cluster to estimate savings
- What's core Apache Kafka vs. vendor-specific extensions — and why that line matters for total cost of ownership
- Built on open-source Apache Kafka, with no proprietary lock-in tax as you scale
- A concrete model to bring into your next budget or planning conversation — numbers, not just a framework
Speakers
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Mackenzie Putici Webinar Moderator Future B2B
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Andrew Mills Sr. Solutions Architect NetApp
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