AutoMQ Information

AutoMQ is the company behind the open-source cloud-native Kafka — redesigned from the ground up for the cloud era. Apache Kafka changed the world of data streaming. As engineers who spent over a decade building on Kafka, we made a deliberate choice: preserve the entire Kafka core that developers trust, and focus our innovation on reimagining the storage layer for the cloud. The result is AutoMQ — a diskless, stateless Kafka that runs directly on object storage like S3, delivering the same protocol compatibility with radically better economics and operations. What AutoMQ delivers: • 100% Apache Kafka compatible — Connect, Schema Registry, and all existing clients work unchanged • Sub-10ms P99 latency — diskless yet as fast as local storage • 10x lower cost — eliminates cross-AZ replication traffic and local disk overhead • Scale in seconds — stateless brokers mean no rebalancing, no data copying • Auto-balancing — continuously eliminates data skew without manual intervention • Infinite storage — powered by object storage with built-in durability Battle-tested at scale: AutoMQ powers mission-critical streaming infrastructure for industry leaders including Grab, Tencent, and many more — processing 300+ GiB/s throughput and managing 10+ PB of streaming data in production. As an open-source project with 10,000+ GitHub stars, AutoMQ is backed by a fast-growing global community of contributors and users who believe Kafka deserves a cloud-native future. Our mission: provide every data engineer with a Kafka experience that honors its roots while embracing the cloud. We are users, we are fans, and we are contributors — committed to following the upstream community and giving back.