Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) vs. Confluent

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)

Confluent

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon MSK	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	Amazon MSK is a managed service enabling users to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. Apache Kafka is an open-source platform for building real-time streaming data pipelines and applications. With Amazon MSK, use native Apache Kafka APIs to populate data lakes, stream changes to and from databases, and power machine learning and analytics applications.	N/A
Confluent	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	Confluent Cloud is a cloud-native service for Apache Kafka used to connect and process data in real time with a fully managed data streaming platform. Confluent Platform is the self-managed version.	$0

Pricing

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)

Confluent

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Basic: $0
Standard: Starting at ~$385
per month
Enterprise: Starting at ~$1,150
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon MSK	Confluent
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Confluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/hour), networking ($/GB), and storage ($/GB-hour). Connect: Use of connectors is billed based on throughput ($/GB) and a task base price ($/task/hour). Process: Use of stream processing with Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is calculated based on CFUs ($/minute). Govern: Use of Stream Governance is billed based on environment ($/hour). Confluent storage and throughput is calculated in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 2^30 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB). Please also note that all prices are stated in United States Dollars unless specifically stated otherwise. All billing computations are conducted in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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Community Pulse
	Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)	Confluent

Features

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)

Confluent

Streaming Analytics

Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) - Ratings	Confluent 9.1 Ratings 13% above category average
Real-Time Data Analysis	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Visualization Dashboards	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Low Latency	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Data Enrichment	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

User Ratings
	Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)	Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)	Confluent
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	If your company needs to build event-driven applications, like in healthcare industry, you need to enhance interoperability, and you are seeking a reliable service with enterprise-grade support, Confluent is the best on the market you can get. Their product works great and they provide very good customer service. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	Products work great. Training is available. Customer support is good. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	The support from the Confluent platform is great and satisfying. We have been working with Confluent for more than a year now. They sent out resident architects to help us set up Confluent cluster on our cloud and help us troubleshoot problems we have encountered. Overall, it has been a great experience working with the Confluent Platform. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	For our use case it was very important that the technology we were working with fit into our Azure architecture, and met our data processing size requirements to stream data within certain SLAs. Confluent more than met our performance requirements and compared to the others scale options and cost to run it was more than financially viable as a platform solution to our global operations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Confluent replaced Microsoft Event Hubs in our environment and unblocked data platform services rollout globally. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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