[haolez]

Cheap managed cloud services, like AWS SQS and Azure Storage Queue (I usually want some kind of persistence for my queues).

[jganetsk]

Pub/Sub Lite is a cheap managed cloud service on GCP: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/lite/docs

With a Kafka compatibility shim: https://github.com/googleapis/java-pubsublite-kafka

Disclaimer: I work for GCP.

[gwenshap]

Confluent Cloud Basic/Standard is a cheap managed Kafka. If the objection is to the deployment and not Kafka clients.

[KptMarchewa]

We might have different definitions of cheap.