AWS launches a managed Kafka service

Kafka is an open-source implement for handling incoming series of data. Like nearly all strong implements, it’s somewhat hard to set up and oversee. Today, Amazon’s AWS is making this all a bit easier for its useds with the launch of Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka. That’s a sip, but it’s essentially Kafka as a fully finagled, highly available work on AWS. It’s now available on AWS as a public preview.

As AWS CTO Werner Vogels noted in his AWS re: Invent theme, Kafka users traditionally had to do a lot of heavy promoting to be established a gather on AWS and to ensure that it could magnitude and handle disappointments.” It’s a nightmare having to restart all the cluster and the primary nodes ,” he said.” That is something that I would call the usual ponderous lifting that AWS is really good at solving for you .”

It’s interesting to see AWS launch this service, given that it once offers a very similar tool in Kinesis, a implement that too focuses on ingesting streaming data. There are plenty of applications on the market today that already call Kafka, and AWS is clearly interested in dedicating those users a pathway to either move to a managed Kafka service or to AWS in general.

As with all things AWS, the pricing is a bit complicated, but a basic Kafka instance will start at $0.21 per hour. You’re not likely to exactly use one instance, so for a somewhat useful setup with three agents and a good extent of storage and some other rewards, you’ll promptly pay well over $500 per month.

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