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BTW, why base pricing on r4 instances vs something more cost effective like r5?
by winrid 3y ago
BTW, why base pricing on r4 instances vs something more cost effective like r5?
- richieartoul 3y agoI think I just followed the official recommendations I found (which are probably stale now). I'll update it to r5, but it doesn't really matter. The price difference between the two is like 5%, but hardware only ends up representing a tiny fraction of Kafka's cost at scale (the real cost comes from EBS and inter-zone networking). I could make the hardware free for Kafka in the comparison, and WarpStream would still come out significantly more cost effective. Cloud networking is really expensive.