AWS introduced over 50 new capabilities across its streaming services, significantly enhancing performance, scale, and cost-efficiency.
Amazon MSK Express brokers offer up to three times more throughput than a comparable standard Apache Kafka broker, virtually unlimited storage, and 90% faster recovery from failures.
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand makes it uncomplicated for developers to stream gigabytes per second of data without managing capacity or servers.
Amazon Data Firehose now supports seamless integration with Iceberg tables on Amazon S3.
AWS's Kinesis Client Library (KCL) reduces compute costs to process streaming data.
Real-time context can be brought to generative AI applications with Amazon MSK's blueprint.
Kinesis Data Firehose supports capturing changes made in databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL and replicating the updates to Iceberg tables on Amazon S3.
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now offers per-second billing, allowing customers to pay for what they use down to the nearest second.
These advancements empower businesses to use real-time data more effectively, modernizing the way for the next generation of data-driven applications and analytics.
Sai Maddali is a Senior Manager Product Management at AWS who leads the product team for Amazon MSK. Bill Crew is a Senior Product Marketing Manager.