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Amazon MSK alternatives

Event streaming · 3 alternatives · Amazon MSK iScore 59 (#4/4)

Every event streaming provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Amazon MSK's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Amazon MSK's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.

Ranked by iScore
  1. Confluent CloudEntry paid plan: Basic gives the first eCKU free and charges $0.14 per eCKU-hour after it, so a small clus…76#1/4
  2. WarpStreamEntry paid plan: $100 a month for the Dev tier, which carries NO uptime SLA, before any per-gibibyte write…70#2/4
  3. RedpandaPricing model: Not published. The pricing page names two tiers, Serverless and Bring Your Own Cloud, and…70#3/4

Where Amazon MSK stands against these 3

Amazon MSK's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.

Partition limit
2,400 partition leaders per Serverless cluster for non-compacted topics, and 120 for compacted ones3rd highest of the 3 that document it. Highest: Redpanda — 5,000 partitions on Serverless, 112,500 on Bring Your Own Cloud.

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