We use Confluent Cloud. Make sure you consider the opportunity cost of you labor into your MSK cost. Other than creating topics and managing ACLs you won’t have to lift a finger to manage your Confluent Cloud Kafka cluster. That means you get to spend all your time building apps to run your business. They also have fully managed KSQL and Kafka Connect. They’ve changed their pricing recently, so make sure to check them out.
On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 4:15 AM 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. > >
