Amazon MSK Reviews

Name: Amazon MSK
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 3.7 (10 reviews)

3.7 out of 5

10 reviews
90% willing to recommend

What is Amazon MSK?

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that enables you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. Amazon MSK provides the control-plane operations, such as those for creating, updating, and deleting clusters.

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Amazon MSK is the #6 ranked solution in Streaming Analytics tools. PeerSpot users give Amazon MSK an average rating of 7.4 out of 10. Amazon MSK is most commonly compared to Databricks: Amazon MSK vs Databricks. Amazon MSK is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 70% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 21% of all views.

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Featured reviews

FNU AKSHANSH

Senior Data Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We don't have many use cases involving ingesting large amounts of data and scaling up and down. We have a clear understanding of our data volume, which remains relatively constant throughout the week. While we're aware of other features Amazon MSK offers, we feel confident in our current setup. If our requirements change significantly in the future, we'll reassess our needs and consider adopting Amazon MSK.

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Gustavo-Barbosa Dos Santos

Software Architect at C&A Brasil

We use the software to facilitate building integrations between systems Amazon MSK has significantly improved our organization by building seamless integration between systems. The product's schema support needs enhancement. It will help enhance integration with many kinds of languages of…

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AnkurShukla

SDE at Mindtickle

Amazon MSK's features that have proven most effective for handling large volumes of data stem from the fact that it acts as Kafka's underlying capability to support millions of rides per minute, and it is what helps us scale very easily. Amazon MSK's scalability impacts our data processing tasks, and one thing for sure is that it's a highly scalable system. Usually, we don't see any challenges because it supports millions of rides per minute with Kafka underlying. One challenge is if you want to scale it out by adding new nodes or brokers. People should finalize the number of partitions before they start using MSK and create a topic because changing partitions is quite challenging. I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

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Amazon MSK mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of Amazon MSK in the Streaming Analytics category stands at 9.2%, down from 9.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Last updated Aug 30, 2024

Valuable Features

"Amazon MSK's scalability is very good."
"The solution's technical support was helpful."
"Amazon MSK's separation of concerns and ease of creating and deploying new features are highly valuable. It just requires to assign them to the topic, and then anyone who needs to consume these messages can do so directly from Amazon MSK. This separation of concerns makes it very convenient, especially for new feature development, as developers can easily access the messages they need without having to deal with complex server communications or protocol setups."

Room for Improvement

"One of the reasons why we prefer Kafka is because the support is a little bit difficult to manage with Amazon MSK."
"Horizontal scale-out is actually not easy, making it an area where improvements are required."
"In my opinion, there are areas in Amazon MSK that could be improved, particularly in terms of configuration. Initially setting it up and getting it connected was quite challenging. The naming conventions for policies were updated by AWS, and some were undocumented, leading to confusion with outdated materials. It took us weeks of trial and error before discovering new methods through hidden tutorials and official documentation."

Pricing

"When you create a complete enterprise-driven architecture that is deployable on an enterprise scale, I would say that the prices of Amazon MSK and Confluent Platform become comparable."
"The platform has better pricing than one of its competitors."
"The price of Amazon MSK is less than some competitor solutions, such as Confluence."

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