Instaclustr Managed Kafka vs. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

NetApp® Instaclustr for Apache Kafka® is a managed event streaming platform that enables organizations to deploy, operate, and scale Apache Kafka clusters for distributed data processing. It is designed for IT operations teams, DevOps engineers, software architects, and businesses that require reliable, secure, and scalable streaming infrastructure without the complexity of self-managing open source technologies. NetApp Instaclustr for Apache Kafka supports enterprises and technology-driven organizations that need to ingest, process, and analyze large volumes of data in real time.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a massively scalable, durable, and low-cost streaming data service. Kinesis Data Streams can continuously capture gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of sources, such as website clickstreams, database event streams, financial transactions, social media feeds, IT logs, and location-tracking events. The collected data is available in milliseconds to allow real-time analytics use cases, such as real-time dashboards, real-time anomaly detection, dynamic pricing.