Top 4 Drivers of Kafka Costs (and How to Reduce Them)

Thursday, February 26, 2026

AMER: 10 AM PST // EMEA: 10 AM GMT // APAC: 10:30 AM IST | 1 PM SGT | 4 PM AEDT

In today’s climate, every dollar spent on infrastructure counts. Yet, engineering teams often miss opportunities to optimize Apache Kafka® costs - treating it as a black box of server bills, networking fees, and engineering overhead.

In this expert-led session and live demo, get tips on how to:

• Break down the key costs of running Kafka: Uncover the "hidden" expenses across compute, storage, and networking that rarely appear as a single line item on your cloud bill.
• Assess your true TCO: Learn how to identify cost-saving levers to slash infrastructure and operational spend by up to 70%.
• Improve infrastructure utilization and avoid downtime: Discover how to maintain high availability without over-provisioning for "peak" demand.
• Free up valuable engineering time for innovation: Transition your team from troubleshooting brokers to architecting revenue-generating data products.

Cut Kafka Costs by up to 70% and Ship Faster

Is your Kafka bill spinning out of control? Assessing the true cost of streaming data is notoriously difficult—leaving most companies overpaying by up to 70%.

At Confluent, we've worked with thousands of customers to help them understand and right-size their Kafka-related spend to support all of their data streaming workloads — and we want to share the valuable insights into key cost drivers and optimization levers for Kafka that we've gained from helping these customers with you.

Register today to learn more on how you can save up to 70% on your Kafka costs!