Comment by sijieg

There are a few things unlocked by Ursa:

1. It is leaderless by design. So there is no single lead broker you need to route the traffic. So you can eliminate majority of the inter-zone traffic.

2. It is lakehouse-native by design. It is not only just use object storage as the storage layer, but also use open table formats for storing data. So streaming data can be made available in open table formats (Iceberg or Delta) after ingestion. One example is the integration with S3 Tables: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/seamless-streaming-to-a... This would simplify the Kafka-to-Iceberg integration.