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Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Pros and Cons: Top 5 Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users appreciate the comprehensive solutions offered by Amazon MSK, enhancing Kafka operations with excellent management and integration. (1 mentions)
Users appreciate the comprehensive documentation of Amazon MSK, which eases the learning curve for seamless management. (1 mentions)
Users appreciate the seamless integration with AWS in Amazon MSK, enhancing scalability and simplifying Kafka management. (1 mentions)
Users appreciate the comprehensive documentation of Amazon MSK, which aids in overcoming the learning curve effectively. (1 mentions)
Users appreciate the management ease of Amazon MSK, benefiting from seamless operations and strong AWS integration. (1 mentions)
Users experience a steep learning curve with Amazon MSK, facing integration complexities and performance issues. (1 mentions)
Users note the expensive costs associated with Amazon MSK, which can be a significant consideration for their budgets. (1 mentions)
Users experience integration complexities with Amazon MSK, which can hinder the overall implementation process and efficiency. (1 mentions)
Users experience a learning curve with Amazon MSK, which can complicate initial setup and usage. (1 mentions)
Users experience a steep learning curve and face various limitations that complicate using Amazon MSK effectively. (1 mentions)

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Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Pros and Cons

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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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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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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.

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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.

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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.

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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.

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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.