Does signing up create a deployment?
No. This page is a cost estimator. Signing up creates your account. You choose and confirm a deployment configuration separately before reserving paid capacity.
What happens when I exceed my transfer commitment?
Your selected transfer commitment is included in the monthly minimum. Additional transfer costs are billed above that minimum at the published rates for your network scope and availability mode. Paid deployments have no broker throughput limit.
Can I move between managed tiers?
You can upgrade your managed tier to unlock additional features. Private connectivity starts at Scale, Local NVMe at Performance, and Multi AZ requires Enterprise approval. Moving an existing deployment from Network Drive to Local NVMe requires a planned migration with our team.
How much telemetry history is included?
Launch and Scale include 7 days, Performance includes 30 days, and Enterprise includes 90 days. Telemetry retention follows your active managed tier.
What stays billable when traffic is zero?
Your full monthly minimum remains payable, including reserved compute, provisioned storage, the selected network throughput commitment, operations, and support. Unused transfer does not reduce the minimum.
What does Network Drive mean?
Network Drive means cloud block storage such as EBS or Persistent Disk. It is not object storage.
How are monthly estimates billed?
The calculator shows a full UTC calendar month. Invoices prorate provisioned resources by the second for partial months.
Do I need to choose a partition quantity?
No partition quantity is required upfront and there is no per-partition price. Partitions are hashed across one shard per vCPU on every node, so larger compute profiles spread them across more cores. Each partition keeps at least one segment on disk, so the provisioned storage and the topic segment size bound how many fit on a node.
Is there tiered storage for long retention?
Coming soon. Sealed segments will tier to object storage such as S3 so topics can keep history far beyond the provisioned disk, priced per GB-month as a Storage line. Until then retention is bounded by the provisioned Network Drive or Local NVMe capacity.