Amazon MSK provides a fully managed, highly
available, secure, and compatible service for Apache Kafka
Vonage, Secureworks, Poshmark, Nutmeg, and
Compass are among customers and partners using Amazon MSK
Today, Amazon Web Services Inc., an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:
AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon MSK, a fully
managed service for Apache Kafka that makes it easy for developers
to build and run highly available, secure, and scalable
applications based on Apache Kafka without having to worry about
managing the underlying infrastructure. Amazon MSK is fully
compatible with Apache Kafka, enabling customers to easily migrate
their on-premises or Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2)
clusters to Amazon MSK with no code changes. There are no
commitments or upfront investment required to run Amazon MSK, and
customers only pay for the capacity they use. To get started with
Amazon MSK visit https://aws.amazon.com/msk.
Customers use Apache Kafka to capture and analyze real-time data
streams from a range of sources, including IoT devices, website
clickstreams, financial systems, and database logs. While many
customers chose to self-manage their Apache Kafka clusters, they
often spend a lot of time and expense securing, scaling, patching,
and ensuring high availability for Apache Kafka and Apache
ZooKeeper clusters, which Apache Kafka depends on for resource
management. Amazon MSK gives customers all of the attributes of
Apache Kafka combined with the availability, security, and
scalability of AWS. With just a few clicks, customers can create
Apache Kafka clusters designed for high availability that span
multiple Availability Zones (AZs). Amazon MSK continuously monitors
underlying server health, automatically replacing servers when they
fail and patching servers in need of updates. Amazon MSK also runs
highly available Apache ZooKeeper nodes at no additional cost.
Amazon MSK provides multiple levels of security for Apache Kafka
clusters, including VPC network isolation, AWS Identity and Access
Management (IAM) for AWS Application Programming Interface (API)
authorization, encryption at rest, encryption in-transit, TLS based
certificate authentication, and authorization using Apache Kafka
access control lists (ACLs). Customers can easily scale out cluster
storage with a few clicks in the AWS management console to meet
changes in demand. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache
Kafka, allowing customers to continue to run applications built on
Apache Kafka, use Apache Kafka compatible tools and frameworks, and
take advantage of new Apache Kafka innovations, without having to
change their code.
"Customers who are running Apache Kafka have told us they want
to spend less time managing infrastructure and more time building
applications based on real-time streaming data,” said Rajesh Sheth,
General Manager of Amazon MSK, AWS. “Amazon MSK gives these
customers the ability to run Apache Kafka without having to worry
about managing the underlying hardware, and it gives them an easy
way to integrate their Apache Kafka applications with other AWS
services. With Amazon MSK, customers can stand up Apache Kafka
clusters in minutes instead of weeks, so they can spend more time
focusing on the applications that impact their businesses.”
Customers start by creating a cluster in Amazon MSK today using
the AWS Console or the AWS CLI, and Apache Kafka clients can
connect to a cluster using Apache Kafka’s open-source APIs. Amazon
MSK is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US
West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Frankfurt), EU
(Paris), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia
Pacific (Sydney), and will expand to additional AWS Regions in the
coming year.
Vonage is a global business cloud communications leader
providing integrated communications solutions that improve how
business gets done by enhancing a company’s customer and employee
experience. Vonage uses Apache Kafka for real-time communication
between various micro-services. “By using Amazon MSK, we reduced
our maintenance overhead and built a micro-services-based platform
that enables businesses to collaborate more productively and engage
their customers more effectively,” said Venkatesh Ennala, a
software engineer with Vonage. “We can now set up new Kafka
clusters more quickly and scale these clusters as our demands
increase. Amazon MSK has removed the complexity of set up and
maintenance, allowing us to focus on what’s most important -
building innovative new capabilities for our customers.”
Secureworks (NASDAQ: SCWX) is a technology-driven cybersecurity
leader that protects organizations in the digitally connected
world. “When developing and launching our security analytics
application, Secureworks chose Amazon MSK service to accelerate
time to market and reduce infrastructure and management overhead,”
said Wendy Thomas, Senior Vice President of Business and Product
Strategy at Secureworks. “This allowed us to focus on innovation
and our unique differentiators, helping protect our customers from
cyber threats.”
Poshmark is a leading social commerce platform for the next
generation of retailers and shoppers. “Through technology, our
mission is to build the world’s most connected shopping experience,
while empowering people to build thriving retail businesses. Amazon
MSK has made it easy to setup, maintain and scale Kafka clusters,
enabling an end-to-end data ingestion pipeline supported by a
fully-managed service,” said Mahesh Pasupuleti, Senior Director of
Data Engineering at Poshmark. “As our demands increase, we feel
confident that we will be able to scale at ease and expand our
streaming ingestion pipelines for data enrichment and real-time
machine learning, providing an enhanced experience for our
customers.”
Nutmeg is Europe’s largest digital wealth manager, helping
consumers to grow their wealth and reach their financial goals by
using cost effective technology to boost returns. Nutmeg uses
Apache Kafka to underpin their journey towards an event driven
architecture. “Since adopting Amazon MSK, we’ve been able to
significantly increase the efficiency of our teams and reduce time
spent maintaining our cluster,” said Matt Gatrell, CTO of Nutmeg.
“As our data requirements and use cases grew, we started to
experience considerable overhead and complexity in managing our
Kafka clusters. Amazon MSK has allowed us to manage our clusters
with confidence, spend less time verifying the performance of the
clusters, scale with ease, and focus more time on innovating and
building exciting real-time applications.”
Compass is a real estate technology company with a powerful
end-to-end platform that supports the entire buying and selling
workflow. Compass uses Apache Kafka to provide its agents with
quick access to fresh and accurate data from hundreds of real
estate data sources nationwide. “Streaming technology is an
important part of what we do as a business, but managing streaming
technology involves a lot of heavy lifting by our software
developers,” said Joseph Sirosh, CTO of Compass. “Amazon MSK has
allowed us to eliminate a lot of this heavy lifting. By using
Amazon MSK we no longer need to spend effort on ensuring data
durability, cluster availability, and scalability, and can now
focus on building applications. Amazon MSK relieves our team from
the burden of operating and maintaining Kafka and at the same time,
we experience less downtime as our clusters are fully-managed.”
About Amazon Web Services
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more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS,
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