WarpStream has introduced WarpStream Managed Data Pipelines, a fully-managed SaaS experience for Bento, which is a lightweight stream processing framework offering much of the functionality of Kafka Connect and additional stream processing capabilities like single message transforms, aggregations, and more. With this feature, WarpStream users can now directly connect with external systems, perform data transformation, and stream data into downstream systems using a simple YAML configuration. Managed Data Pipelines provide a cloud-native, BYOC-managed version of Bento, enhanced with WarpStream's signature data plane / control plane split, allowing pipeline configuration, version control, clustering, and deployment to be administered remotely using a SaaS UX while pipelines run in the user's cloud account. This feature is available for free, with no credit card required, and can be started in just a few minutes.