Best Platform as a Service (PaaS) Providers for Apache Kafka

Compare the Top Platform as a Service (PaaS) Providers that integrate with Apache Kafka as of August 2025

This a list of Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers that integrate with Apache Kafka. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Apache Kafka. View the products that work with Apache Kafka in the table below.

What are Platform as a Service (PaaS) Providers for Apache Kafka?

Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers offer cloud-based environments that allow developers to build, deploy, and manage applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. PaaS solutions provide the necessary tools, services, and runtime environments to develop applications, including databases, development frameworks, and middleware. These platforms abstract away much of the complexity of server management, networking, and storage, enabling developers to focus primarily on coding and application logic. PaaS providers often support multiple programming languages and can be integrated with other cloud services, enhancing scalability and flexibility. With PaaS, organizations can speed up development cycles and reduce operational overhead, all while benefiting from high availability and security features. Compare and read user reviews of the best Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers for Apache Kafka currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Ably

    Ably

    Ably

    Ably is the definitive realtime experience platform. We power more WebSocket connections than any other pub/sub platform, serving over a billion devices monthly. Businesses like HubSpot, NASCAR and Webflow trust us to power their critical applications - reliably, securely and at serious scale. Ably’s products place composable realtime in the hands of developers. Simple APIs and SDKs for every tech stack, enable the creation of a host of live experiences - including chat, collaboration, notifications, broadcast and fan engagement. All powered by our scalable infrastructure.
    Starting Price: $49.99/month
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    Macaw

    Macaw

    Macaw Software

    Macaw is an enterprise grade platform optimized for building and transforming applications for digital age. Macaw provides an unique approach to modernize traditional applications to utilize containers and microservices technologies. It also offers a turn-key approach for enterprises to design, develop, build, publish, run and operate microservices based application in a holistic manner irrespective of the underlying infrastructure and clouds. Macaw is meant for enterprises looking to accelerate their modernization journey with hybrid-cloud strategy and cloud native applications. Thanks to its many built-in foundational services ,turnkey operational capabilities and kubernetes integration. Macaw provides the necessary run time environment, services and tools to build, deploy and manage Microservices based application. It provides various built-in and readily usable core application services like database, security, messaging, load-balancing for accelerated development and turn-key ops.
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    Nutanix Karbon Platform Services
    Karbon Platform Services (KPS) by Nutanix is a Kubernetes-based multicloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) designed to accelerate the development and deployment of microservices-based applications across any cloud. It offers a rich set of managed services, including Kubernetes applications (Containers-as-a-Service), serverless functions (Functions-as-a-Service), global data pipelines, streaming data and message bus (Kafka-aaS, NATS-aaS), AI services (Tensorflow-aaS, Openvino-aaS), ingress controller and service mesh (nginx/traefik-aaS, Istio-aaS), application monitoring and alerting (Prometheus-aaS), and log forwarding. KPS provides simple, SaaS-based multicloud operations, allowing operators to benefit from simplified operations and uniform application, data, and security lifecycle management, regardless of the underlying cloud. Developers can write applications once and deploy them across any cloud through the SaaS-based application lifecycle manager.
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