Amazon MSK vs Confluent Cloud – Comparing Managed Kafka Services [Video]

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Cloud Native

Confluent removes the majority of operational burden across your Kafka journey

Although MSK addresses some operational gaps, it still has many limitations

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Cloud-Native

Self-Managed

Custom/Unsupported

Service	Confluent Cloud	Amazon MSK	MSK Serverless
Sizing	Throughput-based Eliminate cumbersome performance testing and reduce infrastructure costs with elastically scalable, scale-to-zero clusters where you only pay for usage versus provisioned infrastructure	Broker-based Allocate time and resources to run performance tests to pick broker types and count Overprovision infrastructure to reduce the need for complex expansions later due to autoscaling limitations (four …