Posted On: Feb 15, 2021
Amazon IoT Core now supports a new IoT rule action to deliver messages from your devices directly to your Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (“Amazon MSK”) or self-managed Apache Kafka clusters for data analysis and visualization, without writing a single line of code.
Because most Apache Kafka clusters run inside an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Apache Kafka action requires VPC delivery, and is used in conjunction with VPC action to deliver data to your VPC. Unlike other rule actions, VPC action does not require any configuration and is automatically enabled when you specify a VPC destination for your Apache Kafka action.
With Apache Kafka action and VPC action, you can create a rule to send electricity readings from electricity meter sensors of millions of households to an Apache Kafka cluster running on Amazon MSK or EC2 in your VPC for energy consumption analysis and reporting.
Apache Kafka action integrates with Amazon Secrets Manager, and supports Apache Kafka authentication methods such as username/password authentication, and Kerberos authentication.
Apache Kafka action is available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. For more information about this feature, refer to the Apache Kafka action documentation.
Amazon IoT Core is a managed cloud service that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. Amazon IoT Core can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and can process and route those messages to Amazon Web Services endpoints and to other devices reliably and securely. With Amazon IoT Core, your applications can keep track of and communicate with all your devices, all the time, even when they aren’t connected. Amazon IoT Core also makes it easy to use Amazon Web Services and Amazon services like Amazon Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon S3 to build IoT applications that gather, process, analyze and act on data generated by connected devices, without having to manage any infrastructure.