Stream More,
Manage Less

WarpStream is an Apache Kafka® compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of object storage: no inter-AZ networking costs, no disks to manage, and infinitely scalable, all within your VPC.
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✓    no disks to manage
✓    no inter-AZ networking costs
✓    infinitely scalable
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Apache Kafka®
Compatible
Zero
Zero Disks to Manage
10x
Cheaper
than Kafka

Set it and forget it

WarpStream is deployed as a stateless and auto scaling agent binary in your VPC with no local disks to manage.
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Agents stream data directly to and from object storage with no buffering on local disks and no data tiering.

Create new “Virtual Clusters” in our control plane instantly.

Support different environments, teams, or projects without managing any dedicated infrastructure.

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WarpStream S3 Express One Zone Benchmark and Total Cost of Ownership

Excited about the recent 85% drop in S3 Express One Zone (S3EOZ) prices? We've supported S3EOZ since December 2024. This latest pricing update means our latency is 3x better at only a 15% higher TCO.
Richard Artoul
April 18, 2025
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Taking out the Trash: Garbage Collection of Object Storage at Massive Scale

Distributed systems built on object storage all have one common problem: removing files that have been logically deleted either due to data expiry or compaction. We review the pros and cons of five ways to solve this problem.
Richard Artoul
April 10, 2025
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A Trip Down Memory Lane: How We Resolved a Memory Leak When pprof Failed Us

Pprof is an amazing tool for debugging memory leaks, but what about when it's not enough? Read about how we used gcore and viewcore to hunt a particularly nasty memory leak in a large distributed system.
Ella Chao
April 3, 2025
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Things you’ll never have to do in the middle of the night:

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Upscale a cluster that is about to run out of disk space.
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Figure out how to restore quorum in a ZooKeeper cluster or embedded Raft consensus group.
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Rebalance partitions in a cluster after scaling up (or down).
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Upscale a cluster that is about
to run out of disk space.
Figure out how to restore quorum
in a ZooKeeper cluster or embedded
Raft consensus group.
Rebalance partitions in a cluster
after scaling up (or down).

Made for developers

Try our demo in under 30s

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Plug & Play

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WarpStream is protocol compatible with Apache Kafka®, so you can keep using all your favorite tools and software.

No need to rewrite your application or use a proprietary SDK. Just change the URL in your favorite Kafka client library and start streaming!

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producerConfig := map[string]kafka.ConfigValue{
    "bootstrap.servers": 
    "http://53388a09.discovery.warpstream.com:9092",
}

config := kafka.ConfigMap(producerConfig)
producer, _ := kafka.NewProducer(&config)

10x cheaper than Kafka

Never again have to choose between reliability and your budget. WarpStream costs the same regardless of whether you run your workloads in a single availability zone, or distributed across multiple.
WarpStream’s unique cloud native architecture was designed from the ground up around the cheapest and most durable storage available in the cloud: commodity object storage.
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WarpStream’s Magic URLs ensure that data flows seamlessly from producers to consumers without ever crossing interzone boundaries.
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WarpStream agents use object storage as the storage layer and the network layer, side-stepping interzone networking costs entirely.
Manually replicates data between zones for a minimum cost of $0.053/GiB
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BYOC -
Bring Your Own Cloud

Learn About BYOC

WarpStream's hybrid Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployment model provides the ease of use of a fully cloud hosted solution, but the cost profile, security and data sovereignty of a self-hosted deployment.

BYOC clusters use your own compute, and your own object storage. Your data never leaves your environment.

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Managed Data Pipelines
ETL and stream processing from within your WarpStream Agents and cloud account. No additional infrastructure needed. You own the data pipeline – end to end.
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Data Governance
Store all your schemas in WarpStream's Confluent-Compatible BYOC Schema Registry. Do stateless, quick deploys and manage traffic spikes with auto-scaling.
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Orbit
Offset-preserving replication from any source Apache Kafka cluster. Replicate topics, consumer groups, offset gaps, ACLs and cluster configurations.
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Learn about the
WarpStream cost model

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FAQs

Don't see an answer to your question? Check our docs, or contact us directly.

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Is WarpStream really 10x cheaper than alternatives?

The real world is complex and actual cost savings will vary from workload to workload. However, unlike other data streaming systems, WarpStream was designed from the ground up around cloud economics.

WarpStream's unique architecture of leveraging object storage directly with no local disks or manual replication avoids almost all interzone networking costs, and ensures that data is always stored in the most cost effective way possible.

Does WarpStream work in AWS / GCP / Azure / on-prem?

The WarpStream Agents have native support for AWS S3, GCP GCS and Azure Blob Storage built in, so they can run in all three of the major cloud providers.

The Agents can also leverage any S3-compatible object store, so they can be deployed on-prem using technology like MinIO, or in cloud environments with Cloudflare R2.

You can read more about our object storage support in our documentation.

What does "Kafka Protocol Compatible" mean?

Support for the full Kafka protocol is still a work in progress for us, but broadly it means that you should be able to take existing software like Spark, Flink, or custom applications that embed a Kafka client, change the Kafka URL to point at WarpStream, and have everything continue working as intended.

More specifically, this means that we support topics, partitions, consumer groups, etc. We also maintain all the same per-partition ordering guarantees that Kafka does, and even take things a step further by ensuring that producing data to any set of topics/partitions is fully atomic by default.

How do you keep my data secure?

Our hybrid deployment model means that raw data never leaves your environment.

The only data we receive is the high level metadata required to operate your control plane like topic names and partition counts.

How does WarpStream ensure data quality? Does it offer a Schema Registry?

WarpStream supports Schema Validation via external schema registries and services like AWS Glue. It also has its own BYOC-native Schema Registry. 

Like all Schema Registries, the WarpStream BYOC Schema Registry ensures data compatibility and compliance by validating schemas during data production and consumption. This helps minimize downstream data issues and enables schemas to evolve without breaking consumers.

In addition, it has unique features that are only possible with WarpStream’s stateless, zero-disk architecture, such as native integration with the WarpStream Agents, data retrieval via object storage with no intermediate disks, easy scaling, usage of zone-aware routing to avoid interzone networking fees, and no need to wait on “leaders” to be elected, as consensus is handled by WarpStream's metadata store, and Agents can read and write.

Learn more about WarpStream BYOC Schema Registry via our docs and announcement blog.