Why AWS Kinesis Costs $2,400/Month (And How to Do It for $500)
A deep-dive into the real cost of running AWS Kinesis Data Streams at scale — including the shard-hour trap, enhanced fan-out data retrieval fees, extended retention surcharges, and Firehose delivery costs — and a complete self-hosted Redpanda alternative on EC2 with S3 tiered storage that cuts your bill by 79%.