[victor106]

I agree with Confluent pricing, we had the same experience. We switched to pub/sub and Azure Event hubs.

I don't even understand why Confluent should price their offering so high. ITs not like Real time is an exclusive service that other platforms don't have.

[pram]

Because they have stock they need to pump.

I've found talking to Confluent about anything is a complete waste of time unless it's a very specific technical issue. They're always pushing their cloud as the solution, and it's very aggressive.

[igetspam]

Really? We had the opposite experience. We got the impression that sales loves to sell against their cloud. Probably commission related.

[igetspam]

At my last org, we spent hundreds on confluent and then they did a pricing adjustment and our bill went up 4x. No exaggeration. We moves from kinesis to confluent because it was cheaper. After that, we moved back to save money.

[manquer]

There are serious limitations with azure event pub though, especially max number of topics .

We ended migrating to aiven after finding confluent pricing unreasonable.