Grab Reduces Traffic Cost for Kafka Consumers on AWS to Zero

Grab took advantage of the ability of Apache Kafka consumers to connect to the broker node in the same availability zone (AZ) introduced in Kafka 2.3 and reduced the traffic cost on AWS to zero for reconfigured consumers. The change has substantially reduced overall infrastructure costs for running Apache Kafka on AWS.

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