Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka in Public Preview

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&#x27;m trying to debug this issue: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.hortonworks.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;208764&#x2F;kafka-error-attempting-to-send-response-via-channe.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.hortonworks.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;208764&#x2F;kafka-err...</a><p>I&#x27;m not a fan of Kafka though but you sometimes have to managed stuf fyou don&#x27;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&#x27;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!

&gt; Broker instances start at $0.21&#x2F;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.

This is awesome for what I heard about kafka operations.

Huh interesting. I’ve actually had really good luck with Kinesis, this must be their Postgres vs MySQL thing.

What would be the advantage of using this over Kinesis?

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:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mongodb.com&#x2F;licensing&#x2F;server-side-public-license" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mongodb.com&#x2F;licensing&#x2F;server-side-public-license</a>