AWS MSK(managed streaming for kafka) is a fully managed service that enables you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data.
I worked on building kafka cluster on on-premise servers as well as ec2 instances, and AWS MSK really helped to relieve so many manul steps wrt to kafka cluster setup and simplified monitoring(CloudWatch) and maintainability(rolling software/hardware upgrades)
But one problem with AWS MSK as of Aug 2021, is once we scale up EBS storage volume per…