CPS doesn't use a notion of partitions under the covers like Kinesis. Each ordering key can be thought of constituting a "virtual" partition. You can have as ma

CPS doesn't use a notion of partitions under the covers like Kinesis. Each ordering key can be thought of constituting a "virtual" partition. You can have as many keys as you'd like, without specifying them ahead of time. Disclaimer: I work on Cloud Pub/Sub, but this is my own explanation.