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Category: Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)
Secure connectivity patterns to access Amazon MSK across AWS Regions
August 2023: Amazon MSK now offers a managed feature called multi-VPC private connectivity to simplify connectivity of your Kafka clients to your brokers. Refer this blog to learn more. AWS customers often segment their workloads across accounts and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to streamline access management while being able to expand their footprint. […]
Increase Apache Kafka’s resiliency with a multi-Region deployment and MirrorMaker 2
April 2025: The contents of this post are outdated. Please refer to Introducing Amazon MSK Replicator – Fully Managed Replication across MSK Clusters in Same or Different AWS Regions for latest solution and code artifacts. Customers create business continuity plans and disaster recovery (DR) strategies to maximize resiliency for their applications, because downtime or data loss […]
Securing Apache Kafka is easy and familiar with IAM Access Control for Amazon MSK
This is a guest blog post by AWS Data Hero Stephane Maarek. AWS launched IAM Access Control for Amazon MSK, which is a security option offered at no additional cost that simplifies cluster authentication and Apache Kafka API authorization using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles or user policies to control access. This eliminates […]
How Goldman Sachs migrated from their on-premises Apache Kafka cluster to Amazon MSK
This is a guest post by Zachary Whitford, Associate, Richa Prajapati, Vice President and Aldo Piddiu, Vice President in the Global Investment Research engineering team at Goldman Sachs. To see how Goldman Sachs is innovating more with AWS visit Goldman Sachs Leading Cloud Innovator page. The Global Investment Research (GIR) division at Goldman Sachs delivers […]
Validate, evolve, and control schemas in Amazon MSK and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with AWS Glue Schema Registry
August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. Data streaming technologies like Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams capture and distribute data generated by thousands or millions of applications, websites, or machines. These technologies […]
Stream Twitter data into Amazon Redshift using Amazon MSK and AWS Glue streaming ETL
This post demonstrates how customers, system integrator (SI) partners, and developers can use the serverless streaming ETL capabilities of AWS Glue with Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK) to stream data to a data warehouse such as Amazon Redshift. We also show you how to view Twitter streaming data on Amazon QuickSight via Amazon Redshift.
Vortexa delivers real-time insights on Amazon MSK with Lenses.io
This post discusses how Vortexa harnesses the power of Apache Kafka to improve real-time data accuracy and accelerate time-to-market by using a combination of Lenses.io for greater observability and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) to create clusters on demand.
Best practices from Delhivery on migrating from Apache Kafka to Amazon MSK
August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. This is a guest post by Delhivery. In this post, we describe the steps Delhivery took to migrate from self-managed Apache Kafka running on Amazon Elastic Compute […]
Streaming web content with a log-based architecture with Amazon MSK
Content, such as breaking news or sports scores, requires updates in near-real-time. To stay up to date, you may be constantly refreshing your browser or mobile app. Building APIs to deliver this content at speed and scale can be challenging. In this post, I present an alternative to an API-based approach. I outline the concept […]
How Goldman Sachs builds cross-account connectivity to their Amazon MSK clusters with AWS PrivateLink
August 2023: Amazon MSK now offers a managed feature called multi-VPC private connectivity to simplify connectivity of your Kafka clients to your brokers. Refer this blog to learn more. This guest post presents patterns for accessing an Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka cluster across your AWS account or Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) […]