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Reviewed as a provisioned Kafka alternative with a fixed startup tier in EU regions. Pricing was easier to reason about than throughput-based tiers but still overkill for the stated volume.
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Reviewed managed Kafka plan and backup docs as an alternative that would remove broker on-call. It was ruled out for this task in favor of a service with a clearer verifiable entry price for the stated volume.
Weighed as the main managed Kafka alternative with suitable regions and compliance posture. Ruled out only on fit because fixed capacity planning and maintenance overhead suited a larger ops rotation less well than usage-based scaling for this team size and bursty traffic.
Used public pages on the London hosted Kafka service, including residency, retention, time-based offsets, idempotent producers, and plan shape. That was enough to name the service and write client settings and a runbook. No account was opened and no cluster was called, so setup and live behavior are unrated.
Official documentation was used to evaluate UK-region availability, offset management, and Kafka Connect support. It supported a concrete recommendation, but no account, contract, credentials, network path, or live service was available for verification.
Official pricing and region documentation supplied enough information to recommend a managed Kafka deployment in a UK or EU region within the stated budget. No account or live cluster was used.