“Managed Kafka” is Costing You: How to Save 70%

Thursday, December 3, 2025

10 AM PST | 1 PM EST | 10 AM GMT | 10:30 AM IST | 1 PM SGT | 4 PM AEDT

Tired of over-provisioning infrastructure and burning endless engineering cycles on so-called “managed” Kafka?

On paper, “managed” Kafka looks simple—easy to spin up, easy to buy, and seemingly cost-effective. But under the hood, you’re stuck managing Day-2 complexity: scaling pain, reliability gaps, operational workarounds and hidden costs.

That’s why we’ve made it our mission to deliver a better, faster and cheaper Kafka service – one that drastically lowers your Kafka burden and costs—by 40-70%.

Join us on December 3 for a technical deep dive into what it really takes to operate Kafka at scale, and how Confluent Cloud eliminates the hidden costs and complexities of running Kafka with other “managed” services. In this session. You will learn how:

• Confluent Cloud’s serverless architecture, tiered storage, and autoscaling clusters with 99.99% SLA and pay-for-what-you-use pricing can drive major savings
• Our cloud-native Kafka engine that automates data balancing, networking, and replication to reduce cluster latency
• You can mix and match cluster types based on your use case to optimize costs, with Freight clusters reducing networking costs by up to 90%.
• Cluster Linking makes migration painless by mirroring topics, syncing data, and preserving offsets—no manual work, no duplicate messages, no complex orchestration, with a LIVE DEMO.

If you're tasked with running mission-critical Kafka workloads and want to do more with less, this session is for you.