Regarding the pricing aspect of Amazon MSK, we have basic costs as we are billed per hour for the broker instance hours. We use Kafka M5 Large instance, and depending on the instances, that is the cost we have, along with storage cost and data transfer costs, which are the standard data transfer cost for AWS.
I can see the cost increase in our tracking system. Once we started using Kafka, our cloud costs rose by 50% to 60%. I am not aware of the specific licensing model.
Integration Solution Architect at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
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May 24, 2024
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 pricing depends on your use case. If you have a small use case, it will be expensive. But if you have a bigger load, it's reasonable because when you compare it to Kinesis data streams on the same workload it's managed, you don't have to keep nodes up to seven. But if you have a bigger workload on the other end, you can use all those compute and CPU resources to their fullest on MSK. The pricing could be made cheaper. MSK has a monthly licensing cost of fifty dollars.
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.
Regarding the pricing aspect of Amazon MSK, we have basic costs as we are billed per hour for the broker instance hours. We use Kafka M5 Large instance, and depending on the instances, that is the cost we have, along with storage cost and data transfer costs, which are the standard data transfer cost for AWS.
I can see the cost increase in our tracking system. Once we started using Kafka, our cloud costs rose by 50% to 60%. I am not aware of the specific licensing model.
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 solution is expensive.
The platform has better pricing than one of its competitors.
The pricing depends on your use case. If you have a small use case, it will be expensive. But if you have a bigger load, it's reasonable because when you compare it to Kinesis data streams on the same workload it's managed, you don't have to keep nodes up to seven. But if you have a bigger workload on the other end, you can use all those compute and CPU resources to their fullest on MSK. The pricing could be made cheaper. MSK has a monthly licensing cost of fifty dollars.
The price of Amazon MSK is less than some competitor solutions, such as Confluence. I rate the price of Amazon MSK a four out of five.