By &quot;this&quot; I meant a managed Kafka cloud offering. I generally a fan of these types of services as there isn&#x27;t as tight a binding as proprietary ones. Migrating from Heroku Postgres to RDS or self hosted is well defined. Ditto for Redis migrations.<p>SQS, Kinesis, and other proprietary ones not so much. You can insulate your code base but if you&#x27;re really going to leverage the ecosystem of those services then you&#x27;re going to be stuck there. That&#x27;s why I find something like this interesting. The &quot;out&quot; is there so it makes it easier to accept getting in.