Why it matters

MSK is AWS Kafka. Understanding shapes streaming.

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The architecture

Provisioned brokers.

Serverless: fully managed.

MSK optionsMSK Provisionedbroker clusterMSK Serverlessauto-scaleKafka clientssame as OSSMSK Connect: managed connectors for CDC + integration
MSK deployment.
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How it works end to end

Provisioned: control broker config.

Serverless: no infra, per-request billing.

MSK Connect: managed Kafka Connect.

IAM auth or SASL/SCRAM.