Amazon MSK vs Apache Pulsar comparison

"Amazon MSK's separation of concerns and ease of creating and deploying new features are highly valuable. It just requires to assign them to the topic, and then anyone who needs to consume these messages can do so directly from Amazon MSK. This separation of concerns makes it very convenient, especially for new feature development, as developers can easily access the messages they need without having to deal with complex server communications or protocol setups."

"It offers good stability."

"The scalability and usability are quite remarkable."

"MSK has a private network that's an out-of-box feature."

"It provides installations, scaling, and other functionalities straight out of the box."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon MSK is the integration."

"Overall, it is very cost-effective based on the workflow."

"It is a stable product."

"The solution operates as a classic message broker but also as a streaming platform."

"It should be more flexible, integration-wise."

"The product's schema support needs enhancement. It will help enhance integration with many kinds of languages of programming languages, especially for environments using languages like .NET."

"The configuration seems a little complex and the documentation on the product is not available."

"Horizontal scale-out is actually not easy, making it an area where improvements are required."

"The cost of using Amazon MSK is high, which is a significant disadvantage, as the increase in cloud costs by 50% to 60% does not justify the savings."

"One of the reasons why we prefer Kafka is because the support is a little bit difficult to manage with Amazon MSK."

"The cost of using Amazon MSK is high, which is a significant disadvantage, as the increase in cloud costs by 50% to 60% does not justify the savings."

"It does not autoscale. Because if you do keep it manually when you add a note to the cluster and then you register it, then it is scalable, but the fact that you have to go and do it, I think, makes it, again, a bit of some operational overhead when managing the cluster."

"Documentation is poor because much of it is in Chinese with no English translation."

"The price of Amazon MSK is less than some competitor solutions, such as Confluence."

"The platform has better pricing than one of its competitors."

"When you create a complete enterprise-driven architecture that is deployable on an enterprise scale, I would say that the prices of Amazon MSK and Confluent Platform become comparable."