The reasons which I could think are
1. I need not take care of the state of the cluster for scenarios when the broker goes down or the zookeeper goes down. 2. They are by default deploying the cluster across multiple Availability zones. 3. They have their own mirroring policy across the AZs. On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 2:45 PM Tom Black <tom.v.bl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Himanshu Shukla wrote: > > We are planning to go for amazon MSK instead of having our own self > > launched cluster on bare EC2 machines. > > > > It would be very helpful, if someone who has used it before or know about > > it, can share the feedback/observations regarding the same. > > > > My main concerns are, > > Is it worth using Amazon MSK? > > They are expensive. I am curious why you'd consider to use the full > managed service instead of building your own cluster? > > Regards. > -- Regards, Himanshu Shukla