Amazon MSK Connect

With Amazon MSK Connect, a feature of Amazon MSK, you can run fully managed Apache Kafka Connect workloads on Amazon Web Services. This feature makes it easy to deploy, monitor, and automatically scale connectors that move data between Apache Kafka clusters and external systems such as databases, file systems, and search indices. MSK Connect is fully compatible with Kafka Connect, enabling you to lift and shift your Kafka Connect applications with zero code changes. With MSK Connect, you only pay for connectors you are running, without the need for cluster infrastructure.

With MSK Connect, there is no need to provision infrastructure or Apache Kafka Connect clusters. The lifecycle of clusters, workers, and connectors is all handled by the service. Monitoring, automatic restarts of failed connectors, and patching of underlying infrastructure is all transparent to the end user, so you can focus on building your streaming data flows to and from Apache Kafka clusters.

Data flows frequently change, with data volumes going up and down from different sources. MSK Connect provides a serverless experience and scales the number of workers up and down, so you don’t have to provision servers or clusters and pay only for what you need to move your streaming data to and from your Apache Kafka cluster.

MSK Connect is fully compatible with Apache Kafka Connect. This means you can run any connector compatible with Apache Kafka Connect 2.7.1 and above, whether they were developed by one of our partners, by the broad open-source community, or within your own organization. MSK connect allows you to upload any third-party connector plugins and run them on Amazon Web Services.