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Hosted vs unhosted really. I mean you can ask, why use EC2 instead of your own machine at the local data-center? Managed services typically already have taken
by anilgulecha 10y ago
Hosted vs unhosted really.
I mean you can ask, why use EC2 instead of your own machine at the local data-center?
Managed services typically already have taken design considerations for failover, DR, and scaling, so you don't have to.
- htn 10y agoWell, you can get hosted Kafka as a service as well. My company Aiven offers one such service in AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform, DigitalOcean and UpCloud (https://aiven.io/kafka https://aiven.io/kafka). CloudKarafka is an another vendor with managed offering and Heroku too just launched Kafka service as well. I think Kinesis is an excellent service, but if you have an existing stack or preference on OpenSource solutions, it's good to have choice.
- anilgulecha 10y agoHosted Kafka by a third party is not equivalent to (potential) Hosted Kafka by AWS. There's a lot of signalling/data at the back when AWS implements it, which you will never have access to.