Comment by openplatypus

> Object storage for Kafka? Wouldn't this 10x the latency and cost?

It will become slower. It will become costlier (to maintain). And we will end up with local replicas for performance.

If only people looked outside AWS bubble and realised they are SEVERELY overcharged for storage, this would be mute point.

I would welcome getting partition dropped in favour of multi-tenancy ... but for my use cases this is often equivalent.

Storage is not the problem though.