Hey! I came across the Tiered Storage feature in Kafka and found this feature quite exciting! It seems like it could help with dealing with the retention of large amounts of data in Kafka topics.
I have several questions: 1/ Is it still in early access? When will it be considered ready for production? 2/ It appears this might require a module from a vendor, such as Aiven or Confluent. Am I mistaken? 3/ Assuming I've offloaded data to S3, when I need to read the offloaded data back using a Kafka consumer, does the broker read the data directly from S3, or is the data first moved back to the broker's disks before being read? Thank you very much for your help :-)
