WarpStream - Diskless, Kafka-Compatible Streaming Product Bring Your Own Cloud Deploy in any cloud or self-host, using your own compute and object storage. Data Governance Schema registry, linking, and validation in your own cloud account. New! WarpStream Tableflow Fully-managed iceberg tables, materialized from any Kafka topic. Managed Data Pipelines Managed integrations and connectors. Powerful, scalable stream processing. Orbit Offset-preserving replication from any source Apache Kafka cluster. Console UI Schema registry, linking, and validation in your own cloud account. Multi-Region Clusters RPO=0: Zero point of failure by default with no ops, tuning, or trade-offs. Integrations Why Switch? Changelog Exec Summary Book A Demo PricingCustomersBlogCompanyContactDocs Switch to WarpStream Sign InStart FreeStart Free Console Sign Up AWS Marketplace Google Cloud Marketplace 10x Cheaper Than Kafka The Diskless, Kafka Compatible Data Streaming Platform WarpStream is the original diskless, Apache Kafka®-compatible data streaming platform, built directly on top of object storage: zero disks, zero inter-AZ costs, zero cross-account IAM access required. Scales infinitely and runs in your VPC. Get Started Get Started Console Sign Up AWS Marketplace Google Cloud Marketplace Pricing The Future of Coding: How Cursor and WarpStream Power AI Productivity Harnessing Data at Scale: Character.AI's Transition to WarpStream How WarpStream Powers Grafana Labs’ Redesigned Architecture Cost-Effective Logging at Scale: ShareChat’s Journey to WarpStream The Road to 100PiBs and Hundreds of Thousands of Partitions Robinhood Swaps Kafka for WarpStream for Logging How Superwall Uses WarpStream to Scale Subscription Monetization Eternal Saves 60%, Simplifies Ops, and Logs 25 GiB/s With WarpStream Stateless + Auto-Scaling WarpStream is deployed as a stateless and auto-scaling Agent binary in your VPC with no local disks to manage. With WarpStream Without 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. Auto-scaling agent binary. Support different environments, teams, or projects without managing any dedicated infrastructure. Diskless. Limitless. Kafka Compatible. Kafka-Compatible Streaming, Fully in Your Cloud AWS Marketplace GCP Marketplace Operationally Simple Kafka on easy mode Why Switch Pricing Eliminates the need to overprovision for peak load by seamlessly and instantly scaling your cluster in and out. With built-in autoscaling, you can configure usage-based policies and let the system manage resources dynamically. No manual tuning required. Because WarpStream writes directly to cloud object storage, there's no reliance on network-attached disks, dramatically cutting costs. It also entirely eliminates inter-AZ networking fees. The result: lower TCO, simplified operations, and infrastructure that just works. Autoscalingthroughput + agents Replay —GiB/s —agents Plug & Play Kafka 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! producerConfig := map[string]kafka.ConfigValue{ "bootstrap.servers": "53388a09.discovery.warpstream.com:9092", } config := kafka.ConfigMap(producerConfig) producer, _ := kafka.NewProducer(&config) [WarpStream] significantly enhances ease of operations, cost-effectiveness, and simplicity. WarpStream's unique stateless agent architecture, its integration with GCS, and overall operational ease made it the ideal choice for our needs. Character.AI AI Chat, Reimagined Case Study The sort of stuff we put our WarpStream cluster through wasn't even an option with our previous solution. It kept crashing due to the scale of our data, specifically the amount of data we wanted to store. WarpStream just worked. Jeffrey Ling CTO, Goldsky Case Study Why Switch? Learn why teams are switching to WarpStream and choosing a simpler, faster, cloud-native way to stream data at a fraction of the cost. BYOC Bring Your Own Cloud Docs Learn About BYOC WarpStream's hybrid (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. Runs in every cloud warpstream — zsh Made for Developers Try our demo in under 30 seconds curl https://console.warpstream.com/install.sh | sh Made for Developers Tableflow Now GA! Data Governance Orbit : Kafka Replication Multi-Region Clusters Managed Data Pipelines Materialize Kafka Topics as Iceberg Tables Tableflow is an Iceberg-native database that materializes tables from any Kafka topic and automates ingestion, compaction, and maintenance. A truely complete real-time data lake solution. Explore Tableflow Docs Native Data Governance Control in Your Own Cloud Store schemas in WarpStream’s Confluent-Compatible BYOC Schema Registry, verify data with Schema Validation, and migrate Confluent-compatible schema registries with Schema Linking. Data Governance Zero ops Kafka replication and data mirroring Orbit allows you to automatically replicate topics (including record offsets), consumer groups, offset gaps, ACLs and cluster configurations. Works with any source system that is Apache Kafka protocol compatible. Learn About Orbit 99.999% SLA Multi-Region Durability Without Kafka Complexity WarpStream Multi-Region Clusters guarantee  zero data loss (RPO=0) out of the box with zero additional operational overhead. Multi-region consensus and automatic failover handling. Multi-Region Clusters Powerful Stream Processing Made Simple ETL and stream processing from within your WarpStream Agents and cloud account. No additional infrastructure needed. You own the data pipeline – end to end. Raw data never leaves your account. Managed Data Pipelines Integrations WarpStream Executive Summary : Learn how WarpStream reduces costs, simplifies operations, and more. Download Latest From the Blog View All Posts Jason Lauritzen August 12, 2026 Eternal Saves 60+%, Simplifies Ops, and Logs 25 GiB/s With WarpStream Eternal Ltd., the company behind Zomato, Blinkit, Hyperpure, and District, replaced self-hosted Apache Kafka® with WarpStream for logging and observability, cutting costs by 60%. By also swapping managed Kafka for WarpStream in its benchmarking pipeline, Eternal saved an additional 80% and cut cluster creation time from 30 minutes to seconds, all while auto-scaling to handle workloads that swing from 2.3 GiB/s to 25+ GiB/s throughout the day. Read More Richard Artoul July 16, 2026 One Weird Trick to Make Rapid Storage 40x Faster GCP Rapid Buckets should have made WarpStream faster on GCP, but they didn't, until we found the trick. Here's how we cut P99 file write latency by 3x with a few small, surgical changes. Read More Confluent June 26, 2026 Boring by Design: How Character.AI Runs 5 GiB/s on WarpStream and Cut Costs ~90% Character.AI built its real-time trust and safety and experimentation pipelines on WarpStream, slashing streaming costs by 85–90% with zero added operational overhead. Here's the story, straight from their data infra lead. Read More FAQs Don't see an answer to your question? Check our docs, or contact us directly. Get Started Contact Ask Our AI 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. 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 schema-related features on our Data Governance page. 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. You can learn more about our zero access, secure by default model in this blog. 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. 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