Moderate to move
Event Hubs on UpCloud: what it becomes and what it costs.
On UpCloud, Event Hubs becomes Redpanda on UpCloud Cloud Native servers, or an UpCloud Managed Database. Event Hubs speaks Kafka protocol; brokers become yours to run.
Effort grade
Moderate
Same software, self-hosted: you patch, back up and fix it
Cost after the move, before engineer time
35% of today
A Standard throughput unit is $0.03/h = $22/mo plus ingress; a three-node Redpanda cluster on CX33 (€25) carries dozens of units, about 35%.
Engineer time
6 h a month
To run the replacement: patching, backups, on-call. Plus about 5 engineer days for the move itself.
Other ways to replace it
The report lets you pick any of these per service; the figure and the grade follow.
Redpanda Cloud or Confluent Cloud (BYOC)
Kafka protocol, run by the vendor on servers you rent: no brokers to own, but most of today's price stays.
90% of today · Easy
NATS JetStream on UpCloud Cloud Native servers
Lighter than Kafka and far cheaper to run, but producers and consumers are rewritten against a different API.
20% of today · Hard
Your own Event Hubs line, from your export
Drop one month of your Azure cost export and the report prices every service, Event Hubs included, on UpCloud list prices of 18 Oct 2026, net of the engineer time to run it. In your browser; nothing is uploaded.