Case Study: Sophos cuts Kafka costs 30%-40% with Aiven BYOC on AWS

Sophos Unlocks Value with Bring Your Own Cloud for AWS from Aiven

Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, needed a scalable way to power its data-intensive Sophos Central platform while controlling rapidly rising Apache Kafka costs. Using Aiven for Apache Kafka on AWS, Sophos was processing 50TB of data per region each day across a growing multi-region environment, where reliability and zero data loss were critical to its threat detection capabilities.

Aiven helped Sophos move to its Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) model on AWS, letting the company keep managed Kafka while running clusters in its own AWS account. The migration covered 79 Kafka clusters across nine regions in one month with zero downtime and zero data loss, and Aiven’s solution cut Sophos’s Kafka spend by 30%–40% while maintaining high performance and industry-beating five-minute MTTD.

Sophos

Brian Campbell

Senior Director Software Engineering