AWS has announced native support for Apache Avro and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) formatted events in AWS Lambda when leveraging Apache Kafka event source mapping (ESM) in Provisioned Mode.

Kafka Workforce leverages the full power of AWS's cloud infrastructure and AI services, including foundation models on Amazon Bedrock, such as Anthropic's Claude Sonnet, to deliver enterprise ...

Amazon recently announced that AWS Lambda supports content filtering options for Amazon MSK, Self-Managed Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as event sources. The new ...

Kafka is an open-source tool for handling incoming streams of data. Like virtually all powerful tools, it’s somewhat hard to set up and manage. Today, Amazon’s AWS is making this all a bit ...

“AWS entering the space is a win for Apache Kafka and represents the emerging consensus that Kafka is the de facto standard foundation for a company’s streaming platform,” he said in an email.

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Amazon MSK provides a fully managed, highly available, secure, and compatible service for Apache Kafka ...

AWS announces new IoT services and managed Kafka offering - SiliconANGLEAmazon Web Services Inc. Thursday announced the general availability of several new services that it announced during its ...

Though AWS has perhaps historically found the first option easier to deliver, I’m encouraged by all the success I saw with Confluent (in the Kafka case), as well as other open source companies.

Already valued at half a billion dollars, startup Confluent has launched a cloud service to help companies manage popular open-source data streaming service Kafka over AWS and its cloud rivals.

Brainbase Labs today announced the launch of Kafka Workforce, the first enterprise platform for creating highly-specialized AI employees fine-tuned for different roles that can be onboarded in ...