AWS 發表把 Kafka 包起來當服務賣的 Amazon MSK:「Introducing Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK) in Public Preview」。
另外 Kafka 所需的 ZooKeeper 部份已經被包進去了,不需要另外付費:
You do not pay for Apache Zookeeper nodes that Amazon MSK provisions for you, or data transfer that occurs between brokers and nodes within clusters.
目前看起來只提供 us-east-1
區域使用。