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Richie Artoul

Author: Richie Artoul

Richie Artoul is the co-founder and CEO of WarpStream, a drop-in replacement for Apache Kafka built entirely on object storage. Previously, he led the team that built Husky, Datadog's columnar event storage system.

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How WarpStream enables cost-effective low-latency streaming with Amazon S3 Express One Zone

Note (4/10/2025): Amazon S3 Express One Zone reduces storage and request prices. WarpStream, an AWS Partner, is a drop-in replacement for Apache Kafka. WarpStream’s cloud-native architecture makes it as easy to deploy and manage as a stateless web server like NGINX. WarpStream clusters can scale up to handle multiple GiB-per-second workloads as quickly as compute […]