Most Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) customers are simplifying and standardizing access control to Kafka resources using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authentication. This adoption is also accelerated as Amazon MSK now supports IAM authentication in popular languages including Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, and .NET.
In the first part of Configure a custom domain name for your Amazon MSK cluster, we discussed about why custom domain names are important and provided details on how to configure a custom domain name in Amazon MSK when using SASL_SCRAM authentication. In this post, we discuss how to configure a custom domain name in Amazon MSK when using IAM authentication. We recommend you read the first part of this blog as it captures solution details implementation steps.
Solution overview
IAM authentication for Amazon MSK uses TLS to encrypt the Kafka protocol traffic between the client and Kafka broker. To use a…
