[Lucasoato]

There's really no reason for Confluent to be so expensive, the pricing depends on so many factors that it's so easy to fuck up and receive stellar bills. Also the fact that they are releasing so many components with restrictive licenses, or that they postponed the Kafka tiered storage feature (that allows you to unload some of the topics data to S3 instead of expensive SSD disks) so that they could squeeze more money from their customers.

[agallego]

For long term storage I agree too. The reason we invented our byoc was so that (1) you own your storage and (2) we only charge you for value add