The Kafka API You Trust.
The Cloud-Native Storage You Need.

Kafka is the industry standard. AutoMQ didn't change the standard—we replaced the storage engine with a diskless architecture, delivering dramatically lower costs and instant elasticity.

9.3k+GitHub Stars

1,000,000+Docker Pulls

300 GiB/s+Production Traffic

52+Releases Since Nov 2023

Kafka's API. Cloud's Native Storage

Why force a disk-based architecture into a cloud-based world?

API Layer (100% Unchanged)

ProducerConsumerConnectStreams

Compute Layer (Stateless)

BrokerBrokerBrokerBroker

Storage Layer (Replaced)

Local Disks

S3 / Object Storage

API Compatibility: 100% Unchanged

Complete support for the Kafka ecosystem. If it works with Kafka, it works with AutoMQ.

Compute: Fully Stateless

Decoupled architecture enables scaling in seconds and automatic rebalancing. No more data migration pains.

Storage: S3-Native

Replaced local disks with Object Storage. Achieve infinite retention and high throughput with rock-bottom costs.

If it works with Kafka, it works with AutoMQ

Proven by the ecosystem. Keep your infrastructure, pipelines, and tools exactly as they are.

Category	Apache Kafka®	AutoMQ	The Rewriters (C++/Go/Rust)
Core Codebase	Original	Storage Layer Replaced Only	0% (Clean-room rewrite)
Edge-Case Maturity	15+ Years	Inherited 15+ Years	< 4 Years (Transferring risk to you)
Transactional Topics	Native Support	Native Support	Often Limited or Emulated
Compact Topics	Fully Supported	Fully Supported	Performance Bottlenecks/Missing
Queueing Model	Native Support	Native Support	Partial or Unsupported
Strimzi / K8s Ops	100% Native	100% Native	High Friction / Custom Ops
Broker Admin Tools	All Commands	All Commands	Subsets Only
SDK Support	V0.8 to V3.9+	V0.8 to V3.9+	Primarily Recent Versions Only

We Don't Just Claim Compatibility. We Prove It with Every PR.

To ensure AutoMQ remains a drop-in replacement, we run the full gauntlet of the official Apache Kafka® test suite.

2,000+All Community Test Cases Passed

1,000+All Community KIPs Supported

Zero-DayCompatibility: 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 to 3.9, and 4.x

Unlike competitors who struggle to keep up with the Java community's pace, AutoMQ's architecture ensures we are always aligned with the latest upstream stable releases.

Not a Competitor. A Contributor.

AutoMQ is licensed under Apache License 2.0. We aren't here to fragment the Kafka ecosystem; we are here to save it from the limitations of legacy storage. We are Kafka fans, contributors, and operators who believe the future of Kafka is on S3, not on EBS.

Currently in production at

Anton Borisov
Principal Data Engineer at Fresha
"AutoMQ offers Kafka compatibility while cutting operational burden, cross-AZ costs, and painful rebalances. The shared-durability model (object storage) lets you treat brokers as elastic compute—scaling becomes a capacity decision. For ultra-low-latency needs, NFS-backed deployment provides a dedicated option alongside cost-efficient object storage. Being open-source, it's inspectable, reduces lock-in, and lets teams validate behavior under their own workloads."

Skip the Sales Deck. Talk to an Engineer.

If you are evaluating AutoMQ, don't talk to a "Solution Architect" with a script. Talk to the engineers who designed the diskless architecture. Whether it's about partition balancing, WAL latency, or migration paths—we are here to share everything we know.

No fluff. Just engineering.