Amazon MSK's key attributes include cost-effectiveness, robust integration, and seamless AWS coupling. It streamlines workflows, reducing setup efforts with automatic VPC configuration and easy deployment. Its scalability and usability stand out, providing functionality with minimal human input. Separation of concerns facilitates feature development, allowing direct message consumption. Users leverage it for data collection and encryption during migrations, integrating it with other AWS services like S3 and Lambda efficiently without encountering latency or performance issues.
- "The scalability and usability are quite remarkable."
- "It provides installations, scaling, and other functionalities straight out of the box."
- "Amazon MSK's scalability is very good."
Amazon MSK faces challenges with integration and flexibility, particularly with private networks. Users mention high operational overhead, complex configuration, and insufficient documentation. Improvements are needed in schema support and horizontal scaling. MSK's lack of default connectors requires custom plugin creation, which is cumbersome compared to competitors like Fivetran. Pricing is a concern, as cloud costs can surge by up to 60%. Finally, users note that setting up Amazon MSK is complicated due to outdated materials and unclear naming conventions.
- "We need to create connectors in Amazon MSK, but there are no default connectors in AWS for that purpose."
- "The cost of using Amazon MSK is high, which is a significant disadvantage, as the increase in cloud costs by 50% to 60% does not justify the savings."
- "The cost of using Amazon MSK is high, which is a significant disadvantage, as the increase in cloud costs by 50% to 60% does not justify the savings."
