MSK Connect allows you to configure and deploy a connector using Kafka Connect with a just few clicks.
Today, we’re announcing a new capability that makes it easier to manage Kafka Connect clusters. However, manually running Kafka Connect clusters requires you to plan and provision the required infrastructure, deal with cluster operations, and scale it in response to load changes. Kafka Connect is an open-source component of Apache Kafka that provides a framework for connecting with external systems such as databases, key-value stores, search indexes, and file systems. When you use Apache Kafka, you capture real-time data from sources such as IoT devices, database change events, and website clickstreams, and deliver it to destinations such as databases and persistent storage. At re:Invent 2018, we announced Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka, a fully managed service that makes it easy to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. Apache Kafka is an open-source platform for building real-time streaming data pipelines and applications.
