KIP-1241 — Reduce tiered storage redundancy with delayed upload
Discussion Tiered Storage
Adds a configurable delayed upload option for tiered storage, deferring segment upload to remote storage until the segment ages beyond a threshold relative to the local retention period. The current implementation eagerly uploads all closed segments to remote storage immediately, storing the same data on both local disk and remote object storage simultaneously and incurring unnecessary storage costs when data is still within its local retention window.
Details
| Author | fu.jian |
| Status | Discussion |
| JIRA | KAFKA-19893 |
| Wiki | View on Apache Wiki |
| Created | 2025-11-19 |
| Last Modified | 2026-03-18 |
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