For systems that can tolerate slightly higher latency, and prefer operational simplicity. A good example would be a ecommerce platform that is streaming order

For systems that can tolerate slightly higher latency, and prefer operational simplicity. A good example would be a ecommerce platform that is streaming order history into a data warehouse. They likely don’t need sub-millisecond latency that Kafka provides, and can use a simpler, significantly cheaper option to achieve the same result