• Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that enables you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data.
• Amazon MSK provides the control-plane operations, such as those for creating, updating, and deleting clusters.
  • It lets you use Apache Kafka data-plane operations, such as those for producing and consuming data.
  • It runs open-source versions of Apache Kafka.
  • This means existing applications, tooling, and plugins from partners and the Apache Kafka community are supported without requiring changes to application code.