kirillkosolapov

How does this solution differ from AutoMQ and WarpStream? I’ve worked with one of them, and it is indeed a serverless solution built on top of S3.

As far as I know, Kafka itself already supports offloading some data to S3 for long-term storage.

Based on the articles—which I didn't fully grasp—I’m wondering if there are additional benefits mentioned, such as multi-region distribution (though I find it hard to imagine how that would be implemented).

As the founder of a local cloud very similar to Heroku, I understand Heroku's limitations. It's a balance between control and convenience. The simpler everything is, the better it's suited for small projects, but the less control you have for complex projects. Unless you're just running a hobby project, you'll be using Kubernetes and similar services with full control and the complexity that comes with it. Heroku uses AWS, which means they can't make computations cheaper, otherwise the economics don't add up.

In my experience, we (I won't advertise) have prices several times lower, and we try very hard to accommodate more serious projects, but 99% of projects are small and consume less than 200 MB of RAM. This is simply the nature of this market and product.