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

This post explores a framework developed by IBM to modernize baggage analytics using AWS managed services like Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, DynamoDB Streams, and other AWS services within a serverless architecture. The solution enables near real-time baggage operational insights for airlines, delivering cost savings, enhanced scalability, and improved performance while providing better security and operational efficiency to meet evolving airline needs.

We’re happy to announce a new feature in the Amazon Data Firehose integration with Amazon MSK. You can now specify the Firehose stream to either read from the earliest position on the Kafka topic or from a custom timestamp to begin reading from your MSK topic. In this post of this series, we focus on managed data delivery from Kafka to your data lake.

In this post, we describe how you can simplify your event-driven application architecture using AWS Lambda with Amazon MSK. We demonstrate how to configure Lambda as a consumer for Kafka topics, including a cross-account setup and how to optimize price and performance for these applications.

In this post, we demonstrate a use case where you might need to use an MSK cluster in one AWS account, but MSK Connect is located in a separate account. We demonstrate how to implement IAM authentication after establishing network connectivity. IAM provides enhanced security measures, making sure your systems are protected against unauthorized access.

The post demonstrates a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for processing data from MSK Serverless using an EMR Serverless Spark Streaming job, secured with IAM authentication. Additionally, it demonstrates how to query the processed data using Amazon Athena, providing a seamless and integrated workflow for data processing and analysis. This solution enables near real-time querying of the latest data processed from MSK Serverless and EMR Serverless using Athena, providing instant insights and analytics.

This post explains how to use MSK Replicator for cross-cluster data replication and details the failover and failback processes while keeping the same topic name across Regions.

In this post, we introduce StarTree as a managed solution on AWS for teams seeking the advantages of Pinot. We highlight the key distinctions between open-source Pinot and StarTree, and provide valuable insights for organizations considering a more streamlined approach to their real-time analytics infrastructure.

In this post, we walk you through the implementation of MSK Express brokers, highlighting their core features, benefits, and best practices for rapid Kafka scaling.

In this post, we explore how AWS customers can extend Amazon DataZone to support streaming data such as Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) topics. Developers and DevOps managers can use Amazon MSK, a popular streaming data service, to run Kafka applications and Kafka Connect connectors on AWS without becoming experts in operating it.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. We were positioned in the Challengers Quadrant in 2023. This recognition, we feel, reflects our ongoing commitment to innovation and excellence in data integration, demonstrating our continued progress in providing comprehensive data management solutions.