Amazon MSK is AWS's managed service for Apache Kafka, handling provisioning, patching, and operations so teams can run Kafka on AWS without managing clusters. It targets teams that want Kafka with full API compatibility, since it runs actual Apache Kafka, and offers an MSK Serverless option. The managed service is proprietary and not open-source or self-hostable as a service. Pricing is broker-hour or serverless-usage based, with no perpetual free tier. MSK carries SOC2, ISO27001, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS compliance.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2018
- Pricing tier
- Mid
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Streaming / messaging
- Free tier
- No
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Managed service
- Yes
- Kafka-compatible
- Yes
- Serverless
- Yes