Universal Linking is currently available at no cost. Subject to changes in the future.
Here is the current status of StreamNative Universal Linking
  • Public Preview on AWS and Google Cloud Platform
Exercise caution before using preview functionality to provision production environments. If you encounter issues creating a Cloud Environment , please submit a ticket.
Universal Linking provides a powerful and cost-effective solution for replicating data across Kafka and Pulsar clusters, whether self-managed or fully-managed. By leveraging S3 object storage, it simplifies networking and storage, significantly reducing operational complexity. Key Features:
  • Offset Preservation: Ensures that message offsets remain consistent during data replication, maintaining data integrity.
  • No Cross-Zone Traffic: Enables efficient data transfer without incurring cross-zone charges, optimizing costs.
  • Schema Migration: Facilitates seamless migration of data schemas, ensuring compatibility and consistency across platforms.
  • Topic and Consumer Group Migration: Allows easy migration and preview of topics, subjects, and consumer groups, streamlining the transition process.
Universal Linking is ideal for seamless data replication and interoperability, enhancing disaster recovery, data migration, and global data streaming across multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. Limitations:
  • StreamNative Universal Linking is currently available in Public Preview on AWS and GCP cloud providers only. It is not available on Azure.
  • StreamNative Universal Linking can replicate data on StreamNative Ursa clusters only. It is not compatible with StreamNative’s Classic engine.
  • UniLink currently supports data replication only to StreamNative Ursa clusters deployed in a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) environment.
  • As StreamNative Ursa is not yet available for Serverless or Dedicated deployment models, this limitation also applies to the use of Universal Linking.
  • UniLink currently does not support replication of ACLs
  • UniLink only supports Kafka protocol. It does not support the Pulsar protocol.