This is a repackaged open-source software product wherein additional charges apply for support and for providing it in a simple consumable AMI. Apache Kafka is a publish-subscribe-based fault-tolerant messaging system. In comparison to other messaging systems, Kafka has better throughput, built-in partitioning, replication, and inherent fault tolerance, which makes it a good fit for large-scale message processing applications. We have packaged the Kafka and Zookeeper as clusters to increase the resiliency and availability of the services. All that you have to do is subscribe to this offering from the marketplace, create topics, publish messages from the producers, and start consuming with the consumers.

Amazon EC2 running Microsoft Windows Server is a fast and dependable environment for deploying applications using the Microsoft Web Platform. Amazon EC2 enables you to run compatible Windows-based solutions on AWS' high-performance, reliable, cost-effective, cloud computing platform.