This is awesome. Kafka were super fragile to me. Every version will come with all kind of issues and I have to restart here and there :(.<p>Right now I'm trying to debug this issue: <a href="https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/208764/kafka-error-attempting-to-send-response-via-channe.html" rel="nofollow">https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/208764/kafka-err...</a><p>I'm not a fan of Kafka though but you sometimes have to managed stuf fyou don't like anyway.<p>So this is great news. AWS truly listen to their customers I think.
Awesome stuff. Kafka has been out of reach for our small org because we simply don't have the resources to manage a prod Kafka+zookeeper cluster. Kinesis has never anywhere near feature parity with Kafka. Ktables on AWS here we come!
> Broker instances start at $0.21/hr and broker storage is $0.10 per GB-month<p>Kafka requires Zookeeper, do you pay for zookeeper instances too? Anyway, this pricing seems prohibitively costly unless you really need hands-off approach to your infra. Kafka is pretty low-maintenance and stable in my experience.
Amazon taking more open source and selling it with no value created for the developers. Maybe Kafka should switch to the SSPL [0].<p>[0] - <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license" rel="nofollow">https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license</a>