Introducing Serverless Pro: Built for enterprise-level data streaming

When we launched Repanda Serverless in March 2024, customers were keen to experience the simplicity and flexibility of an Apache Kafka^® API-managed service that’s instantly available with a smooth-sailing developer experience.

Since then, we’ve observed solid growth for Redpanda Serverless, with customers creating an average of 81 clusters a day and 2,500 clusters a month.

Customers report loving Serverless due to its:

• Instant cluster creation
• Automatic scaling from peak loads-to-zero compute
• Pay-as-you-go, usage-based pricing

In addition, they appreciate being able to start small and iterate, as well as gracefully absorb spiky and sporadic workloads. However, customers also told us they want more. 

More throughput, more partitions, and all the enterprise features. They want to go pro. 

And we listened.

Introducing Serverless Pro

In the rapidly-evolving world of data streaming, three key challenges continue to dominate: cost, complexity, and latency. 

Redpanda Serverless was purpose-built to address these challenges head-on, providing a streamlined, efficient, and high-performance solution for modern data streaming needs. 

Serverless Pro takes the game-changing foundation of Redpanda Serverless and supercharges it with larger limits and world-class support designed to meet the demands of enterprise-level data streaming.

Here’s how. 

Tackling cost: Efficiency at scale

The saying “go big or go home” shouldn’t apply to infrastructure spend. Cost management is one of the most pressing concerns in data streaming, particularly for organizations juggling large-scale operations. Serverless Pro enables:

• Pooling resources: With a multi-tenant architecture, compute, storage, and networking resources are shared across tenants. This maximizes hardware utilization and reduces idle capacity, stretching your infrastructure investment much further.
• Massive scale savings: Operating at scale, cloud providers leverage bulk purchasing power for hardware, bandwidth, and power. These savings are passed down to users, creating a more cost-effective environment.
• Pay-as-you-go pricing: Why pay for more than you use? With Serverless Pro, you only pay for the resources you consume, eliminating the expense of maintaining over-provisioned infrastructure.

Simplifying complexity: A centralized approach

Managing data streaming infrastructure often causes more than a few grey hairs. Serverless Pro radically simplifies operations with a suite of features designed to reduce complexity:

• Elastic scaling: Dynamically allocate resources based on real-time usage. Multi-tenant architectures allow unused capacity to be reallocated to other tenants, ensuring efficiency and minimizing waste.
• Simplified maintenance and upgrades:
  • Centralized upgrades: Redpanda Cloud can update and maintain shared infrastructure more effectively, spreading the associated costs across all tenants.
  • Reduced customer responsibility: Say goodbye to the headaches of managing and updating infrastructure. Redpanda handles the heavy lifting, freeing your team to focus on innovation.

Achieving low latencies: Performance redefined

Serverless Pro is ideal for those in industries that prioritize:

• High-throughput data pipelines: Large volumes of data that need to be processed in real-time.
• Event-driven architectures: Low-latency streaming for microservices or IoT applications.
• Analytics and monitoring: Real-time insights or dashboard updates.

With Serverless Pro, latency flips from roadblock to a competitive advantage. Tapping into Redpanda’s cutting-edge core capabilities, we ensure low latencies so real-time applications perform at their absolute best.

Get started with Serverless Pro

Redpanda’s Serverless Pro is more than just a tool—it’s a paradigm shift in data streaming. By addressing cost, complexity, and latency, it provides a seamless, scalable, and high-performance solution tailored to the growing demands of the enterprise. Excited? We sure are. 

Test the Redpanda difference today and transform how you think about data streaming. Learn how to get started with Redpanda Docs or contact us for pricing.