I don’t want to disagree with the research here, but what is not evident from the article is that this is not a magical solution that improves upon Kafka hands down, but rather a solution that addresses trade offs someone might be willing to entertain. I think on the query side things may be quite suboptimal in this setup if I understand it correctly. Correct me if I am wrong but if two agents write on a single topic, I would need to read two files to consume. Also I remember infamous stories about the cost of deleting data from S3, how do you tackle that if you have that many individual files? With these trade offs how does the solution compare to using Aurora?