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Category: Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)

Mainframe data integration conceptual flow

Mainframe data integration: Using mainframe data to build cloud native services with AWS

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Figure 2. Simulated RLN architecture in the AWS Cloud

Scaling DLT to 1M TPS on AWS: Optimizing a Regulated Liabilities Network

SETL is an open source, distributed ledger technology (DLT) company that enables tokenisation, digital custody, and DLT for securities markets and payments. In mid-2021, they developed a blueprint for a Regulated Liabilities Network (RLN) that enables holding and managing a variety of tokenized value irrespective of its form. In a December 2021 collaboration with Amazon […]

Figure 2. Technical workflow for Meshify IoT architecture

How Meshify Built an Insurance-focused IoT Solution on AWS

The ability to analyze your Internet of Things (IoT) data can help you prevent loss, improve safety, boost productivity, and even develop an entirely new business model. This data is even more valuable, with the ever-increasing number of connected devices. Companies use Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT services to build innovative solutions, including secure edge […]

Figure 1 - Architecture representing an IoT ingestion pipeline

Field Notes: Deliver Messages Using an IoT Rule Action to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

With IoT devices scaling up rapidly, real-time data integration and data processing has become a major challenge. This is why customers often choose Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) for message ingestion, and Apache Kafka to build a real-time streaming data pipeline. AWS IoT Core now supports a new IoT rule action to deliver messages from […]

Figure 3. Replay Architecture

Amazon MSK Backup for Archival, Replay, or Analytics

Amazon MSK is a fully managed service that helps you 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. With Amazon MSK, you can use native Apache Kafka APIs to populate data lakes. You can also stream changes to […]