Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)

Alternative to Amazon Kinesis
Fully managed Apache Kafka on AWS
- Allow you to create, update, and delete clusters
- MSK creates & manages Kafka brokers nodes & Zookeeper nodes
- Deploy the MSK cluster in VPC, multi-AZ (up to 3 for HA)
- Automatic recovery from common Apache Kafka failures
- Data is stored on EBS volumes for as long as you want
MSK Serverless
- Run Apache Kafka on MSk without managing the capacity
- MSK automatically provisions resources and scales compute & storage

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