AWS Big Data Blog

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

Introducing Protocol buffers (protobuf) schema support in AWS Glue Schema Registry

AWS Glue Schema Registry now supports Protocol buffers (protobuf) schemas in addition to JSON and Avro schemas. This allows application teams to use protobuf schemas to govern the evolution of streaming data and centrally control data quality from data streams to data lake. AWS Glue Schema Registry provides an open-source library that includes Apache-licensed serializers […]

Back up and restore Kafka topic data using Amazon MSK Connect

This blog is only meant to be used as a reference for backing up and restoring data for an Amazon MSK cluster. AWS does not offer any support for it. You can use Apache Kafka to run your streaming workloads. Kafka provides resiliency to failures and protects your data out of the box by replicating […]

Comparing throughput and put latencies of different broker sizes

Best practices for right-sizing your Apache Kafka clusters to optimize performance and cost

Apache Kafka is well known for its performance and tunability to optimize for various use cases. But sometimes it can be challenging to find the right infrastructure configuration that meets your specific performance requirements while minimizing the infrastructure cost. This post explains how the underlying infrastructure affects Apache Kafka performance. We discuss strategies on how […]

Create a low-latency source-to-data lake pipeline using Amazon MSK Connect, Apache Flink, and Apache Hudi

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. During the recent years, there has been a shift from monolithic to the microservices architecture. The microservices architecture makes applications easier to scale and quicker to develop, […]

Validate streaming data over Amazon MSK using schemas in cross-account 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. Today’s businesses face an unprecedented growth in the volume of data. A growing portion of the data is generated in real time by IoT devices, websites, business […]

Evolve JSON Schemas in Amazon MSK and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with the AWS Glue Schema Registry

Data is being produced, streamed, and consumed at an immense rate, and that rate is projected to grow exponentially in the future. In particular, JSON is the most widely used data format across streaming technologies and workloads. As applications, websites, and machines increasingly adopt data streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis Data […]

Now Available: Updated guidance on the Data Analytics Lens for AWS Well-Architected Framework

Nearly all businesses today require some form of data analytics processing, from auditing user access to generating sales reports. For all your analytics needs, the Data Analytics Lens for AWS Well-Architected Framework provides prescriptive guidance to help you assess your workloads and identify best practices aligned to the AWS Well-Architected Pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, […]

Query your Amazon MSK topics interactively using Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink Studio

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. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink Studio makes it easy to analyze streaming data in real time and build stream processing applications powered by Apache Flink using […]

Power your Kafka Streams application with Amazon MSK and AWS Fargate

Today, companies of all sizes across all verticals design and build event-driven architectures centered around real-time streaming and stream processing. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming and event data. Apache […]

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. […]