Artie(@artie_labs):Artie now runs Apache Kafka for you on AWS. You pay AWS’s price for the infrastructure plus 25% on the brokers, and that’s it. Three r8g.large brokers with 1 MB/s in and 500 GB retained come to $436 a month, compared with $1,110 for the same cluster on Amazon MSK. Once your cluster is up, our engineers are on call for it. Artie Managed Kafka replaces failed brokers, rebalances partitions, grows disks before they fill, moves older data to S3, and rolls out upgrades one broker at a time. Last night a streamer tried running Kafka himself, live. By 3 AM his disks were full, a broker was on fire, and the partition reassignment had four hours left. Someone in chat told him to “just use managed.” Chat was right.

2026.11.03 19:06

Artie now runs Apache Kafka for you on AWS. You pay AWS’s price for the infrastructure plus 25% on the brokers, and that’s it. Three r8g.large brokers with 1 MB/s in and 500 GB retained come to $436 a month, compared with $1,110 for the same cluster on Amazon MSK. Once your cluster is up, our engineers are on call for it. Artie Managed Kafka replaces failed brokers, rebalances partitions, grows disks before they fill, moves older data to S3, and rolls out upgrades one broker at a time. Last night a streamer tried running Kafka himself, live. By 3 AM his disks were full, a broker was on fire, and the partition reassignment had four hours left. Someone in chat told him to “just use managed.” Chat was right.