Depending on your needs, you can use Waterstream on the premises or the cloud.
Use Waterstream on your infrastructure
We provide Waterstream as a Docker image that you can pull directly. However, it will require a development license file to work.
You can get a license by filling the form below with your email address or mailing a request to sales@waterstream.io. If you don’t receive anything in a few minutes, please check your spam folder or drop us a message.
The development license is limited to 100 concurrent clients and 3 Waterstream nodes. If you need to evaluate Waterstream with more clients, send us a message to get a customized license.
Waterstream requires Apache Kafka to work; if you don’t have a running Kafka cluster yet, you can use our playground project to set up our playground project a complete environment for you.
The full documentation for Waterstream is available at https://doc.waterstream.io. Still, we provide support through our forum and by email support@waterstream.io
Use Waterstream on cloud
We provide Waterstream through the AWS Marketplace. In this case, you don’t need to ask for a license, Waterstream will work out of the box.
Still, you need to provide a Kafka cluster or use Confluent Cloud. Waterstream does not have a development license on the cloud, but you can try it for free with an unlimited number of clients for 30 days*. After that deadline, you will pay Waterstream as you go as any other AWS service.
To make it easier for you to setup Waterstream on AWS, we prepared a convenience Cloudformation project.
We don’t have marketplace solutions for other cloud vendors at the moment, but if you use GCP, we have a handy project to deploy Waterstream with no effort.
Use Waterstream on your Raspberry (or for your hobby project)
If you want to use Waterstream for non-commercial projects, you can still ask for the development license on this page.
In this case, you want to download our Docker DevBox distribution that contains Waterstream, Kafka, and a friendly dashboard to monitor MQTT activity. This image is available also for the ARM64 architecture
*AWS infrastructure costs still apply