Use Freight Clusters and Lambda for Cost-Effective Streaming Pipelines

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This post introduces Confluent Cloud Freight clusters as a cost-effective solution for high-throughput, relaxed latency Kafka workloads, up to 90% cheaper than self-managed Kafka. It details how to integrate these serverless clusters with AWS Lambda functions using various patterns (managed/self-managed connectors, Lambda ESM, EventBridge Pipes) for serverless stream processing. The post provides a specific e-commerce use case for ingesting customer actions and sending survey links, highlighting the use of Lambda's Kafka Event Source Mapping (ESM) with Provisioned Mode for fine-tuned throughput control, VPC-connected Lambda functions for private resource access, and event filtering for cost optimization.