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Cut Kafka cloud bill
Cut your Amazon MSK Cloud Bill by up to 50%
Solve all Kafka's pain points
Solve all MSK's Pain Points
Better performance than kafka
Better Performance and Stability
automq vs apache kafka
Difficult to scale in/out

Retains all Kafka architecture limitations

Amazon MSK is essentially a cloud-hosted version of Apache Kafka, and it does not thoroughly transform Kafka's architecture into a cloud-native one like AutoMQ does. Therefore, the difficulties in scaling, high costs, resource waste caused by over-provisioning, and related performance and stability issues caused by Kafka itself also exist in MSK.

Expensive

Lags behind the Kafka community's updates

Amazon MSK often falls behind the community version by several months to as much as six months. For some serious issues exposed by the Kafka kernel, Amazon MSK cannot address and resolve them promptly, which will seriously affect the production stability of the customer's existing MSK clusters.

Weak Self-healing ability

SLA does not cover Kafka faults

Amazon MSK's SLA only covers MSK code. You won't receive compensation for outages caused by Kafka itself.

Data Skew

Mandatory multi-AZ deployment

Even in test or AZ-tolerant scenarios, multi-AZ deployment is mandatory. However, Kafka's data-intensive nature results in high cross-AZ traffic costs, increasing user expenses.

Disk read performance is poor

Incompatibility with Kubernetes

Amazon MSK cannot be deployed in your Kubernetes cluster, limiting seamless integration with other Kubernetes applications and data infrastructure for users managing Kafka via Kubernetes.

Low capacity utilization

Vendor lock-in

Choosing Amazon MSK means facing high future migration and transformation costs when moving Kafka to other clouds or implementing multi-cloud deployments.

AutoMQ is a next-generation, cloud-first Kafka solution. By offloading Kafka's data persistence to cloud storage, it has developed a high-performance, low-cost, infinitely scalable stream storage engine based on WAL and S3. Unlike Amazon MSK, which merely offers a cloud-hosted service without modifying the Apache Kafka architecture, AutoMQ addresses all the inherent limitations of Kafka.

Discover how AutoMQ resolves Kafka's pain points through technological innovation by exploring our 'AutoMQ vs. Apache Kafka' comparison.

AutoMQ has 100% full compatibility with Apache Kafka. By preserving much of the Apache Kafka computation layer code, AutoMQ can swiftly and seamlessly adopt important new features and critical fixes from the community.

Apache Kafka is a very successful and continuously growing open source project. By building on Kafka, AutoMQ fully leverages the ecosystem benefits of Apache Kafka.

Critical Kafka Bug Fix
Merge patches from the Apache Kafka community or have fixes implemented by AutoMQ Kafka Experts once bugs are discovered.
MSK offers only select versions of Kafka, and failures due to Kafka software are not covered by MSK uptime SLAs. Bugs may exist for a long time.
Follow the Latest Main Version
Version gap is less than 1 month.
Version gap is several months, even half a year.
Category
Service
Category
SaaS
IaC-Control Panel
IaC-Data Panel
BYOC
Multi-Cloud Support
IaC-Data Panel
Kafka UI
On EKS
Operate
Infra Monitoring
Reactive monitoring
Proactive monitoring
Topic Monitoring
Free, pre-aggregated metrics
Topic-level metrics cost extra
Upgrades
Always the latest stable version
Limited version support
Software Patches
Proactive fixes
Reactive fixes
Auto Balancing & Stability
By Traffic
By QPS
By Partition Numbers
By Catch-up Traffic
By CPU&Mem Usage
Slow Node Isolation
Catch-up Traffic Isolation
Scale
Cluster Expansions in Seconds
Cluster Shrinkages in Seconds
Storage
Pay-as-you-go for storage
EBS Overprovision
Storage Cost
0.024USD/GB/M
Standard: 0.1 USD/GB/M
Tiered: 0.06 USD/GB/M
Storage Compatibility
TTL > 3 Days
Compact Topic not Supported
Traffic Cost
(Cross-AZ)
Producer
0
$0.01/GiB
Consumer
0 for rack-aware consumers
0 for rack-aware consumers
Replication
0
0
Integration
Data Lake
OTLP
Grafana

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