Low-Latency, Diskless Kafka® on S3

AutoMQ is the low-latency diskless Kafka on S3 — 100% compatible, built for low-latency streaming at cloud scale, with zero inter-AZ costs, no over-provisioning, and seamless auto-scaling powered by real-time traffic balancing and intelligent partitioning.

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Go Diskless with AutoMQ

AutoMQ is deployed as a stateless, auto-scaling broker with zero local disks to manage.

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Build Applications with AutoMQ

Build elastic applications and microservices with AutoMQ. Create, process, and analyze streams of events with Kafka's strong correctness and durability guarantees. Powerful, native APIs support Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, and Confluent's Parallel Consumer.

Cloud-Native Storage

Leverage S3-compatible object storage for unlimited scalability and 90% cost reduction

Instant Scaling

Scale compute and storage independently in seconds without data migration

Zero Disk Management

Completely diskless architecture eliminates disk management overhead

Pay-as-you-go

Only pay for actual storage used, no over-provisioning required

Scale Kafka with Ease, Pay per GiB

Simplify scaling and costs. AutoMQ eliminates fixed clusters and provisions resources dynamically, charging you solely based on actual network egress.

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Built-in Elasticity

AutoMQ automatically adjusts capacity based on demand, preventing over-provisioning and cutting expense.

Auto-Scaling

Scale automatically based on traffic without manual intervention.

Pay-as-You-Go Pricing

Pay only for actual network egress. No idle capacity charges.

Zero Capacity Planning

No capacity planning needed. Adapts to workload in real-time.

90% Cost Reduction

Up to 90% savings by eliminating over-provisioning.

See Auto-Scaling in Action

Watch how AutoMQ automatically adjusts capacity in real-time to match traffic patterns

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Automatic Scaling

Instances spin up and down automatically based on real-time traffic

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Pay Only for What You Use

No more paying for idle capacity during low-traffic hours

Zero Downtime

Seamless scaling without interrupting your data streams

AutoMQ: The Better Kafka

A complete reimagining of Kafka for the cloud—radically simpler, more cost-effective, and truly elastic.

Superior Performance

  • 75% lower write latency with P99 < 50ms
  • 5x faster catch-up reads
  • Seconds not hours for partition reassignment
  • Independent produce/consume paths prevent backpressure
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Cost Efficiency

  • Up to 10x lower cost than Apache Kafka
  • Pay only for what you use with serverless architecture
  • Automatic tiering to object storage
  • No overprovisioning required
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True Elasticity

  • Scale up and down in seconds
  • Auto-scaling based on workload
  • Zero downtime during scaling operations
  • Decouple compute and storage for flexibility
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Fully Kafka Compatible

  • 100% compatible with Apache Kafka APIs
  • Drop-in replacement for existing applications
  • Works with all Kafka ecosystem tools
  • No code changes required
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Cloud Native

  • Built for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
  • Leverage cloud object storage (S3, Azure Blob)
  • Multi-AZ deployment by default
  • Integrated with cloud-native tooling
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Simple Operations

  • No complex cluster management
  • Automated failover and recovery
  • Built-in monitoring and observability
  • Reduce operational overhead by 90%
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Streaming Lakehouses

Natively integrates Iceberg/Delta Lake table formats to auto-convert Kafka topics into query-ready tables without ETL pipelines.

Kafka Linking

Seamlessly replicate data and metadata between AutoMQ and any Kafka protocol-compatible system for hybrid cloud, disaster recovery, and migration.

Kafka Connector

300+ connectors with 100% compatibility with Kafka upstream and downstream ecosystem.

Kafka Cluster Federation

Unified access point for multiple clusters with transparent topic cluster switching through proxy metadata routing for disaster recovery capabilities.

Unified Streaming and Analytics

AutoMQ's Table Topic feature seamlessly bridges streaming and batch analytics. By natively supporting Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake formats, your Kafka topics automatically become queryable tables. Eliminate complex ETL pipelines and data duplication while maintaining real-time data freshness for analytics workloads.

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Performance Comparison

AutoMQ outperforms Apache Kafka on latency, throughput, and rebalancing—by a lot. Looking for a specific metric? Contact us.

MetricApache Kafka®AutoMQ
Produce Latency(Median)5 msAWS 1 AZ: 2 ms
AWS Multi-AZ: 5 ms
Azure, GCP: 10 ms
Produce Latency(P99)100 ms (with Pagecache thrashing)AWS 1 AZ: 10 ms
AWS Multi-AZ: 20 ms
Azure, GCP: 30 ms
AutoMQ bypasses both OS PageCache and the Java heap, eliminating GC pauses entirely for consistently low latency.
Catch-up Read ThroughputLimited by broker disk I/O> 1 GB/s per BrokerData is streamed directly from cloud storage, enabling massive parallel read throughput unbounded by local disk.
Maximum Partitions~100,000~100,000AutoMQ builds on Kafka's KRaft for metadata storage, delivering the same high partition limits as native Apache Kafka.
Partition Rebalance TimeSeveral HoursSeconds (Near-instant)Scaling operations require only metadata updates to reassign connections, with zero inter-broker data movement.

Flexible Architecture for Any Deployment

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FullyManaged, Shared Responsibility

IaaS resources owned by Customer

Data stays within customer's VPC, ensuring privacy and security

Pay-as-you-go

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AutoMQ Software

Deploy on any cloud or private data center

Self-Hosted and maintenance

Highly customizable and scalable

Suitable for public clouds as well as self-built storage stacks like Ceph/MinIO

Commercial licensing and technical support available

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"AutoMQ reduced our Kafka costs by 85% while improving performance. The elastic scaling is truly game-changing."
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