Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
Understand how Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) enables the building and running of real-time streaming applications without managing infrastructure. Learn key MSK components like topics, producers, consumers, broker nodes, and Zookeeper. Discover differences between MSK and Amazon Kinesis, and explore MSK use cases such as IoT device data management for real-time analytics and automated actions.
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Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) lets us easily build and run applications that handle real-time data streams. Amazon MSK acts like a highway system for data, allowing users to collect, process, and analyze it in real-time without having to manage the underlying infrastructure. It simplifies working with Apache Kafka, a popular open-source platform for stream processing, so users can focus on building applications.
Amazon MSK components
Here’s a breakdown of the key components involved in an Amazon MSK cluster:
Topics, producers, and consumers: Topics are essentially categories or channels within the MSK cluster where data streams are published and consumed. Producers are applications or services that publish data streams to topics in the MSK cluster. They ...