TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Overview2. What is Amazon MSK3. Top Features4. Conclusion5. CloudThat 6. FAQs
Overview
The digital era has produced trillions of gigabytes of data. Organizations today use streaming services to manage online data. This allows them to preserve data integrity and transfer it to other real-time applications.
Apache Kafka was created to solve these problems. It streamlines data through its pipeline and can later be used in multiple real time applications. Apache Kafka is a server that needs to be maintained. Once the server goes down, no data will be allowed to go to the destination.
AWS created a service called Amazon MSK (Managed streaming for Apache Kafka) to address data availability and security.
This service is used by many companies in the industry to analyze their real-time data and identify key performance indicators (KPIs) in their business model.
What is Amazon MSK?
Amazon Managed Streaming (MSK), offers fully managed Apache Kafka. Amazon MSK configures your Apache Kafka clusters and replaces them when they fail. It also orchestrates server patches, upgrades, and modifies clusters to ensure high availability. It can also set up alarms and monitoring, as well as run scaling to accommodate load changes. With a managed service, you can spend your time developing and running streaming events applications.
Amazon MSK offers open-source, highly secured Apache Kafka clusters distributed across multiple availability zones (AZs). This gives you resilient, highly accessible streaming storage. Amazon MSK is configurable, observable and scalable, which allows for flexibility and control for different use cases.
Top Features
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Fully Managed: You can create a fully managed Apache Kafka Cluster following Apache Kafka best practices with just a few clicks from the console. Or, create your cluster using a custom configuration. Once you have created your configuration, Amazon MSK configures and manages Apache Kafka cluster operations.
Amazon MSK Serverless – This cluster type for Amazon MSK makes it easy to run Apache Kafka clusters, without needing to manage storage and compute resources.
Highly available:
Default High-Availability: All clusters are spread across multiple AZs (three being the default), and are supported by Amazon MSK’s service-level agreement. They also have automated systems that detect and resolve issues within-cluster infrastructure. Amazon MSK replaces any component that fails without affecting your applications.
Amazon MSK uses multiAZ replication to ensure high availability. Data replication is available at no additional cost.
Highly Secure
Private connectivity: You can easily set up your clusters under a VPC, which will allow you to maintain your private internet connection.
Encryption in transit and at rest: We can encrypt your data at rest and at rest with different AWS services.
Amazon MSK offers the lowest cost of entry, starting at $2.50 per day. Customers typically pay $0.05 to $0.07 per GB ingested all-in. This can be as low 1/13th as other managed providers.
Scalable:
Scaling brokers: You can increase the number of agents (brokers) needed to transfer data from source-to-destination.
Amazon MSK automatically scales clusters to meet your application’s throughput requirements.
Automatic storage scaling: We can seamlessly scale the storage per broker to meet storage requirements changes using the AWS Management Console (AWS Command Line Interface) or AWS Command Line Interface.
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