The popular video stream-processing software, Apache Kafka has gained significant traction over the recent years. The open-source tool that is mainly used for processing live streaming data, Kafka provides real-time analytics to derive maximum value from the streaming media content. Kafka has grown tremendously as many organizations have adopted this platform for building real-time data pipelines and video streaming applications. That being said, over one third of the fortune 500 companies use Kafka to run and manage their video streaming operations.
Seeing its increasing popularity, Amazon rendered its cloud support for Kafka to build and deploy applications that facilitate video stream processing. With the advent of Amazon MSK (Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka), it has become easy to build and run real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. Amazon MSK also lets you populate various data lakes and stream variations from databases. Furthermore, you can use it to power machine learning algorithms and build applications with real-time analytics features.
Challenges With Apache Kafka
Despite the many benefits, Apache Kafka clusters are not easy to set up, scale, and manage in the production environment. Developers must manually configure Kafka before they can run it. Additionally, it requires provision servers, in case your existing servers incur any unanticipated failure.
Developers must orchestrate server patches, system upgrades, optimize clusters, and consistently manage scaling events to support load changes. Above all, developers need to ensure that data is securely stored for easy accessibility.
How Amazon MSK Overcomes These Challenges
Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) enables developers to build and run streaming applications on Apache Kafka with ease. With Amazon MSK, they do not require expertise from Kafka infrastructure management services as Amazon renders complete support for building and deploying applications. As a result, developers can focus on the core development operations without getting into complexities of infrastructure management.
How It Works?
Amazon MSK console lets you create fully managed Apache Kafka clusters that are easy to configure, run, and deploy. With MSK, you do not need to acquire provisional servers as it automatically runs Kafka clusters on the AWS cloud.
In addition, Amazon MSK continuously monitors cluster performance and replaces faulty nodes with new ones to ensure smooth app functioning. It also provides top-notch security to Kafka clusters by enabling end-to-end data encryption.
Benefits of Amazon MSK
Amazon MSK provides a fully managed, secure, and more efficient way to run, manage and deploy Apache Kafka clusters. Below are the main enterprise benefits of using Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka.
Fully Managed
Amazon MSK enables developers to build scalable streaming applications with Kafka without using Apache Kafka infrastructure. It also eliminates the requirement of procuring provisional servers as the clusters can be managed directly on the AWS cloud. In addition, it significantly reduces the complexities related to configuration and maintenance of Kafka clusters and Apache ZooKeeper nodes.
Compatibility
Amazon MSK renders open-source compatibility and provides full support for third-party tools like Apache Flink, Spark, and HBase. It is also fully compatible with tools like Flume, Storm, Prometheus, and MirrorMaker.
Security
It provides multi-fold security for Kafka clusters at different levels of operations. The top-tier security rendered by Amazon MSK includes VPC network isolation, control-plane API authorization, TLS-based authentication, in-transit encryption and data-plane authorization.
High Availability
Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka enables multi-AZ replication for Apache Kafka clusters on the AWS cloud. As already mentioned, Amazon MSK continuously monitors Kafka clusters and automatically replaces them in case of the component failure.
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Closing Thoughts
Apache Kafka is an extremely useful software that possesses higher throughput and replication characteristics, making it ideal for tracking IoT sensors with high accuracy. Developers can also use it in combination with other tools like Flume, Spark, Flink, Storm, and HBase. However, using Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka gives you better flexibility and elasticity to easily accomplish complex development and deployment tasks.
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