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Managed Kafka by Canonical

Reduce your time to value with open source Apache Kafka as a managed service. Benefit from increased agility, backed by an SLA. Canonical delivers the service in your cloud tenancy or data centre.


Managed Kafka on your cloud


Why choose Canonical's Managed Kafka


Streamline operations

Offload critical Kafka operational service delivery to Canonical, so that your internal team can focus more on your business goals.

High availability

High uptime backed by an SLA for peace of mind. We guarantee 99.9% availability of the Kafka service. Our deep expertise in open source software underpins your SLA.

Secure and compliant

Our operations are certified, with regular independent audits for your assurance.

Innovate at scale with your data

Delivering at web scale can be immensely challenging. Canonical's managed services for Kafka scale efficiently – so your Kafka service remains stable and exceptionally cost effective as your business grows.


Key features

  • Backed by an SLA

    Backed by a 99.9% uptime SLA. Your data is the backbone of your business. Canonical ensures that it's available with a high uptime commitment. Canonical managed services for Kafka keep the data flowing.
  • Secure by design

    Service delivery with security in mind. Minimise risks. Canonical managed services are routinely audited for conformance to industry standards and legislation like GDPR, ISO:27001 and SOC-2 Type II.
  • Turnkey service

    A complete solution, on your cloud tenancy or in your data centre. Canonical covers the full project engagement including architecture design, deployment, transition and day to day operations.
  • Service health dashboards

    Service health dashboards for full transparency. We provide you with access to Kafka health dashboards, so that you can verify the health and uptime of your service directly.

Managed Kafka pricing

A low total cost of ownership. Up to five times lower than cloud services when fully costed.


Managed Kafka on Azure

$3099

Per year,
per VM*Management fee does include the cloud infrastructure cost.

The low cost solution for maximum scalability.


  • Highly automated service delivery for security and efficiency
  • Real operations staff proactively monitoring and on call 24/7
  • Includes upgrades and security patches


Managed Kafka on OpenStack

$6861

Per year,
per hypervisor*All hypervisors in the cluster must be covered. Per-VM pricing is also available.

Secure, managed service delivered to your on-premise data centre by our Kafka operations team.


  • Deliver a web scale Kafka data platform on-premise with our managed services team
  • Combine managed OpenStack with Managed Kafka for maximum efficiency gains
  • Strong SLA and compliance commitments ensure your data is not left compromised



Managed Kafka resources


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