AWS Big Data Blog
Best practices for running production workloads using Amazon MSK tiered storage
In the second post of the series, we discussed some core concepts of the Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) tiered storage feature and explained how read and write operations work in a tiered storage enabled cluster. This post focuses on how to properly size your MSK tiered storage cluster, which metrics to […]
Deep dive on Amazon MSK tiered storage
In the first post of the series, we described some core concepts of Apache Kafka cluster sizing, the best practices for optimizing the performance, and the cost of your Kafka workload. This post explains how the underlying infrastructure affects Kafka performance when you use Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) tiered storage. We […]

