Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

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 ...