Cloud Topics Part 1: Overview

Cloud Topics became Generally Available in the 26.1 release. Cloud Topics allow streaming customers to bypass expensive cross-availability-zone replication fees by writing payloads directly to inexpensive object storage (S3/GCS). You can expect 90% savings on data transfer costs. Links: - https://docs.redpanda.com/cloud-data-platform/develop/topics/cloud-topics/#enable-cloud-topics - https://www.redpanda.com/blog/cloud-topics-architecture - https://www.redpanda.com/blog/cloud-topics-level-zero-garbage-collection