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Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Overview

What is Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is an AWS streaming data service that manages Apache Kafka infrastructure and operations, making it easy for developers and DevOps managers to run Apache Kafka applications and Kafka Connect connectors on AWS, without the need to become experts in operating Apache Kafka. Amazon MSK operates, maintains, and scales Apache Kafka clusters, provides enterprise-grade security features out of the box, and has built-in AWS integrations that accelerate development of streaming data applications. To get started, you can migrate existing Apache Kafka workloads and Kafka Connect connectors into Amazon MSK, or with a few clicks, you can build new ones from scratch. There are no data transfer charges for in-cluster traffic, and no commitments or upfront payments required. You only pay for the resources that you use.

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Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. Apache Kafka is an open-source platform for building real-time streaming data pipelines and applications.


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Abhijith B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
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"Unlocking Seamless Data Streaming: Comprehensive Review of Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka"
Amazon MSK has streamlined our Kafka operations with its seamless management, scalability, and tight integration with the AWS ecosystem. Have high ...
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Streaming Kafka with AWS reliability and security"
AWS MSK takes away all the worries for managing and scaling Kafka Clusters and makes it effortless to build the platform on the go. Being part of A...
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"Best data streeming tool to run application with AWS flavour"
It gave peace of mind and ease of use and implementation in upstreaming the domains and clusters. Deployment procedure is excellent where minim...

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What do you like best about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

This is a fully managed service that enables to built and run of an application & to process streaming data, the best feature of this application is it's AWS CLI which is the best one, I can use the AWS Command-line interface or the APIs in the SDK to create or delete an Amazon MSK cluster. THIS IS THE BEST ONE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

zookeeper-nodes is an open-source some times disturb too much so I dislike this and also following limits in these features are not good

1-Up to 90 brokers per account and 30 brokers per cluster

2- a minimum of 1 GiB of storage per broker

3-Up to 100 configurations per account

4-A maximum of 16384 GiB of storage per broker

these features are limited, if you need high than this you must make a request & wait for approval, it could take time to approve, this feature can be solved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I highly recommended the Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) for the best features in it with the best & cheap price Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka is solving my problems like

- AWS Management Console

- The workarounds for solving this issue without upgrading the cluster

- Scaling Up Broker Storage

- Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

- Consumer group stuck in PreparingRebalance state

- Disk space is running low

- Number of partitions per broker Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mharis C.
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so far Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kakka (Amazon MSK) is very speedy and no problem with logs at all. With great customer service or after-sales. The best part of this business is customer service and after-sales. They are very knowledgeable and they really know what they are doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

Nothing so far because the company is so helpful to clients like us. Why you say something if the product itself is almost perfect even the customer service is outstanding. Like before I figured out that there's a problem they already know that there is and they will contact you directly. No need for you to call. They will figure it out first before you will. I hope all the company will be like this. Because this is faster and better compare to the last system that we used. I"m happy with them so car everything is so good and I don't have my kind of complaint the customer service or after-sales us very good because they have a designated team who will directly contact you and will make sure that you get what you really deserve out of this software. another good thing I got is they don't just offer because they can but they offer because that's what you really need. They assessed carefully our business to make sure that which of the system will match our process. They even provide designated people who will finish the project smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Yes if you want a streamline customer service who knows how to resolve the issue as faster and better compare to the last system that we used. I"m happy with them so car everything is so good and I don't have my kind of complaint the customer service or after-sales us very good because they have a designated team who will directly contact you and will make sure that you get what you really deserve out of this software. another good thing I got is they don't just offer because they can but they offer because that's what you really need. They assessed carefully our business to make sure that which of the system will match our process. They even provide designated people who will finish the project smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us with streaming capabilities and real-time building streaming data pipelines. I hope will provide more information and training so at least we can do it on our own. Because this is faster and better compare to the last system that we used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

It's availability and ease of deploy was what I would expect from a managed service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

We couldn't scale vertically without doing a data migration ourselves to the new cluster and we couldn't scale out either. For a managed service we rely on in production, this made no sense so we moved providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Distributed event driven microservices. Messaging between them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

Amazon mask manages services for you like configure clusters (if one cluster fail or stop working immediately control transfer to another cluster), storage management (manages space for your application on EC2 ). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

You have to pay more for amazon MSK services, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK):

It manages all clusters for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

If you not using amazon MSK you have to configure cluster and storage management of Kafka on your own but when you used MSK it will manage all services for you. You do not have to focus on storage and cluster management. After using MSK your focus completely on the development not on managing complex clusters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Quick and easy setup, plus it is secured. I was able to set up in less than 30 mins and was deployed in our VPC. Can be monitored via CloudWatch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

Monitoring metrics have some extra charges, which can be a slight downside, but comparatively, but the overall cost felt cheaper. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Traditionally Apache Kafka requires resources to set up and manage, but with AWS MSK, we have realized it is much simpler and cost-efficient because it's easy to set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

Its compatible with Kafka

its elastic

has ZooKeeper managed for you Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

Almost like every AWS tool the UI needs some work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK):

To be honest i don't have enough experience to make recommendations. I like that Amazon has started doing this and has addressed the pain of managing Kafka clusters. If one needs to do this quickly I would say use Amazon MSK than starting from scratch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Streams with a guaranty of uniqueness as deduping becomes problematic in other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

Very simple and easy to use and build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. With Amazon MSK, you can use native Apache Kafka APIs to populate data lakes, stream changes to and from databases, and power machine learning and analytics applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

Nothing really. The smallest problem I have is I get errors at times. Gets annoying but I just go through it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon MSK has made a lot of great impact on my work it's crazy! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Best open source application for build and run for streaming data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

Nothing for now will update it in future Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK):

Migrate and run your existing apache Kafka applications on AWS for best experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Monitoring a cluster of data and clusters health Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

In as little as 30 minutes, one is able you get a multi-AZ Kafka cluster, fully replicated! Plus tons of data storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

At this early stage, security features are lacking, but again, it being a new product, I am sure Amazon won't let us down in the very near future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

At this point, I am still learning, trying to teach myself how these types of software function and how they can streamline my clients' businesses as I become a consultant, hopefully for Amazon and/or one of its subsidiaries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

I pretty love anything that Amazon has to offer , the amazon managed streaming is ok, compared to all the other streaming services available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)?

Not so much as a dislike, just nothing caught my eye about investing more into the one over others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) solving and how is that benefiting you?

When it comes to business, the Amazon streaming is convenient because it helps to save money from using cable tv, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.