Redpanda Serverless provides a fully managed, Kafka-compatible streaming data platform, enabling developers to build scalable applications without infrastructure overhead.
Vendor
Redpanda Data
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Redpanda Serverless offers a streamlined solution for real-time data streaming, eliminating the complexities of infrastructure deployment and configuration. As a fully managed service, it provides the simplicity of a pay-as-you-go model with seamless scalability, allowing users to start quickly and grow confidently. It is designed to be the fastest and easiest way to begin streaming data, enabling rapid iteration on a budget while ensuring production-ready scalability for Redpanda code. The platform boasts instant cluster creation, predictable performance with automatic scaling, and flexible usage-based pricing. It integrates seamlessly with the existing Kafka ecosystem, requiring no code changes for any client library that communicates directly with Kafka. Developers benefit from an easy-to-use dashboard, Redpanda Console, which offers web UI visibility into partitions, topics, and messages, facilitating dev-friendly troubleshooting. Redpanda Serverless helps optimize price-performance by allowing users to fine-tune total cost of ownership (TCO), making it ideal for starter workloads that can scale up to support sustained traffic. Its instant onboarding process allows users to go from cold start to a basic application in under a minute, and its self-service nature means no DevOps involvement is needed for experimentation or productivity.
Features & Benefits
- Fully Managed & Serverless Operation
- Eliminates the need for infrastructure deployment, system configuration, and DevOps involvement, offering a fully self-service experience.
- Kafka Compatibility
- Leverages the existing Kafka ecosystem, allowing any Kafka client library to work without code changes, ensuring seamless integration.
- Scalable & Cost-Optimized
- Provides predictable performance that automatically scales, with usage-based, pay-as-you-go pricing, including options for commitments and bulk discounts to optimize TCO.
- Rapid Deployment & Developer Experience
- Enables instant cluster creation at the click of a button and instant onboarding, allowing users to create basic applications in under 30 seconds. Includes Redpanda Console for dev-friendly troubleshooting and visibility.
- Flexible Pricing & Commitments
- Offers usage-based pricing with no long-term commitments, driven by traffic (ingress, egress), storage (retention), and partitions.