Managed Apache Kafka for real-time pipelines, event sourcing and log aggregation. Topics, partitions and scoped SCRAM credentials in KRaft mode, with flat plan pricing and no throughput surprises.
Kafka is how modern systems move events, between services, into warehouses, out to consumers. Running it yourself means KRaft quorums, rebalancing and partition math at 3 a.m. We run the cluster with replication factor 3 and scoped SCRAM credentials, and bill a flat plan price instead of metering every gigabyte.
The operational layer ships with the cluster: protection, networking and observability are how it works, not add-ons.
The current Apache release running KRaft, so there is no separate ZooKeeper ensemble to operate. Private-network only by design: clients connect over the fabric or a private link, never the open internet.
Flat monthly plans from the live pricing table. Backups, networking and monitoring are in the price.
Coming from MSK, Confluent Cloud, Redpanda or a self-hosted cluster? Continuous replication keeps Raff in sync while your source stays live; when lag reads zero you cut over in seconds. An engineer runs it with you, free.
Managed Databases run on the same first-party cloud as the rest of Raff, and everything below connects over the private fabric.
Yes, open-source Apache Kafka 4.3 running in KRaft mode, speaking the standard Kafka protocol. Your existing producers, consumers and CLI tools work unchanged.
We bill a flat plan price per cluster instead of metering ingress, egress and storage separately. You size the cluster, you see one line on the bill, and throughput within it does not generate surprise charges.
High availability adds a standby copy of your database that takes over automatically if the main one fails. It costs a fixed percentage of the plan price, from +70% depending on the database, and you see the full cost on the same single bill line before you turn it on.
One line per database: the database you chose and its size, for example Postgres 4 GB. Backups, networking, traffic and monitoring are already inside that price, there is no separate fee for any of them. If you turn on high availability, it adds a fixed percentage to that same line. The only extra line you can ever see is more storage, at a flat price per GB.
Kafka is private-network only by design: clients connect over the private fabric or a one-click private link from your Raff services, never the open internet. Exposing Kafka publicly is an anti-pattern, so unlike our other databases there is no public endpoint. Producers and consumers authenticate with SCRAM credentials over TLS.
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