If you manage Apache Kafka today, you know the effort required to manage topics. Whether you use infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions or perform operations with admin clients, setting up topic management takes valuable time that could be spent on building streaming applications.
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now streamlines topic management by supporting new topic APIs and console integration. You can programmatically create, update, and delete Apache Kafka topics using familiar interfaces including AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), AWS SDKs, and AWS CloudFormation. With these APIs, you can define topic properties such as replication factor and partition count and configuration settings like retention and cleanup policies. The Amazon MSK console integrates these APIs, bringing all topic operations to one place. You can now create or update topics with a few selections using guided defaults while gaining comprehensive visibility into…
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/streamline-apache-kafka-topic-management-with-amazon-msk/
