Overview
Instaclustr is a leading managed service provider for enterprise grade deployment of open source Apache Kafka. We offer a holistic operational service for businesses running global-scale, always-on applications that require a massively scalable, performant and reliable streaming platform. With 50M+ node hours of operational experience and 5PB+ of storage under management, we confidently commit to industry-leading SLAs backed by enterprise-level support.
Our offering is feature-rich and powers business-critical real-time applications:
- Live elastic scaling
- Virtual Private Clusters with an option to pick your own VPC
- Extensive monitoring including Consumer lag
- Schema Registry
- REST proxy
- Data and network encryption
- Service Broker APIs for Kubernetes
- Prometheus integration
- Account, Access and Session control
- Instance types for every use case
With experience from large scale deployments of data layer technologies, we have built optimized solutions and procedures to operate massive-scale open source Kafka clusters including proactive monitoring & alerting, daily health-checks, vulnerability assessments and live patching, live version upgrades, live node-replacements, and automated maintenance operations - fully seamless to customers.
Instaclustr Managed Kafka https://www.instaclustr.com/solutions/managed-apache-kafka/
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Highlights
- Open source Apache Kafka is the streaming platform of choice for real-time applications. No license fees, no vendor lock-in, huge community support, scalable, reliable, performant and a proven solution for always-on low-latency real-time applications.
- Leave the operational complexity with us and focus on your core business. Production-ready Kafka backed by expert, proactive support to ensure your real-time applications can scale with your business, deliver low-latency streaming data under high workloads, and be always available.
- Confidently run your applications - The only Kafka MSP with Five 9s Availability SLA (12+ nodes) with an agreed Latency SLA so your real-time applications can serve your customers 24x7; These SLAs are also backed with industry-best compensation.
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Dimension | Cost/host/hour |
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Instaclustr Standard Unit (equivalent to small prod node) | $0.342 |
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At Instaclustr, we pride ourselves on outstanding customer support. All customers using our managed service enjoy enterprise-level support by a team of highly experienced Kafka specialists and operators. All customers enjoy the same levels of proactive operational monitoring and support with industry-best response times. Support Site - https://support.instaclustr.com , Support Policy - https://www.instaclustr.com/company/policies/support/ support@instaclustr.com , sales@instaclustr.com
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All the best bits of open source software without any of the bad bits
Excellent Kafka service provider
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Knowledge in Kafka management with the greatest possible security
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This are some of the benefits
Decouples producer applications from consumers, allowing each to operate at its own pace and without the awareness of the other.
An enabler for event-driven applications. These are applications that generate and/or react to domain-specific events. This is in contrast to the more traditional request-response style messaging patterns.