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Amazon Managed Streaming

  • alternative to Kinesis.
  • Fully managed Apache Kafka on AWS
  • cluster

MSK Serverless

  • no provisioning
  • automatic scaling

Difference to Kinesis

  • Kinesis 1 MB limit per MSG, MSK 10 MB.
  • kinesis shard, Kafka topics.
  • Kafka doesn't enforce SSL.
  • Kafka can only add partitions to a topic.

Consumers

  • Apps (EC2, ECs, EKS)
  • Kinesis Data Analytics
  • GLUE
  • Lambda