Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Alternatives (January 2026)

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully managed, serverless data streaming service that stores and ingests various streaming data in real time at any scale.

Collect streaming data, create a real-time data pipeline, and analyze real-time video and data streams, log analytics, event analytics, and IoT analytics.

Aiven for Apache Kafka – Managed event streaming Kafka service ✓ Microservices ✓ Event-driven architecture ✓ Streaming pipelines ✓

Confluent makes it easy to connect your apps, data systems, and entire business with secure, scalable, fully managed Kafka and real-time data streaming, processing, and analytics.

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that simplifies setup and operation of open-source message brokers on AWS.

Amazon SQS fully managed message queuing makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics helps you easily build Apache Flink apps, streaming Java apps, and real-time SQL queries to get real-time analytics, clickstream analytics, log analytics, event analytics, and iot analytics.

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Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data.