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Kafka AWS Kinesis
Operational Model System of brokers (servers that store and process messages) Managed service provided by AWS
Data Writing Writes data to disk, I/O operations carried out by OS Synchronously brokers data streams, writes and replicates ingested data into three different AWS machines
Configurability More control to the operator Machine configuration is abstracted away
Architecture Topics (all related events are stored), Partitions (based on cluster specifications) Streams (equivalent of Kafka topic), Shards
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