Diskless topics for Aiven for Apache Kafka® are now generally available

Diskless topics reduce the cost of high-throughput workloads by minimizing inter-availability zone (AZ) network traffic and using object storage instead of local disks. The features is now generally available for Aiven for Apache Kafka® in Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployments on AWS and GCS.

Key details:

• Data durability and replication are handled by the object storage layer.
• Flexibility of classic and diskless topics both coexisting on the same cluster.
• Runs a PostgreSQL-based coordinator, managed as a service integration.

Learn more in the Diskless topics overview.