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A multi-protocol proxy for connecting clients and services to Amazon MSK.
Overview
Zilla Plus is a Kafka-native edge and service proxy. It is a flexible, secure, and reliable way of creating stateless API entry points into your Amazon MSK cluster for both native and non-native Kafka clients, removing the need for Kafka Connectors, integration pipelines, custom code, and VPNs.
Use Zilla Plus to securely expose your Amazon MSK cluster to external partners, decouple clients and brokers for disaster recovery, stream data to web/mobile apps for real-time experiences, turn Amazon MSK into an IoT broker, and more!
[SECURE PUBLIC ACCESS] Enable authorized clients to access your Amazon MSK cluster via a custom domain name over the internet with no changes to underlying brokers. Supports IAM, SASL and mTLS authentication via integrations with AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Certificate Manager (including AWS Nitro Enclaves for automated certificate renewal).
Multiple Zilla Plus instances require only a single NLB, even if there are multiple brokers. The presence of an NLB ensures that publicly reachable Zilla Plus endpoints to Amazon MSK can be DDoS-protected via AWS Shield.
[SECURE PRIVATE ACCESS (FOR MSK SERVERLESS)] Enable authorized clients deployed across VPCs (even cross-account) to securely connect, publish messages, and subscribe to topics in your Amazon MSK Serverless cluster. Eliminates the need to manually whitelist 1000 broker DNS names to enable broker access.
[DISASTER RECOVERY] Deploy Amazon MSK custom DNS name via Zilla Plus in both primary and secondary AWS regions to support seamless disaster recovery via DNS record update to secondary AWS region without needing to reconfigure Kafka clients due to consistent bootstrap server name.
[WEB STREAMING] Expose Amazon MSK topics via SSE (Server Sent Events) endpoints and stream messages to web and mobile clients at scale with reliability and security. Create REST endpoints for clients to POST and PUT updates back into Amazon MSK topics.
[IOT INGEST & CONTROL] Turn Amazon MSK into a fully-fledged IoT broker, enabling MQTT clients to directly publish and subscribe to topics. Both MQTT messages and client state are stored in Amazon MSK, removing the need for a separate dedicated MQTT broker.
[GRPC-KAFKA EVENT MESH] Turn Amazon MSK into a gRPC server and route service method requests and responses to and from topics. Fan out messages from an Amazon MSK topic to multiple gRPC clients or proxy messages between a gRPC client and server through Kafka, allowing them to communicate as if they are talking directly to each other.
Highlights
- Flexibility: Seamlessly connect both native and non-native Kafka clients to your Amazon MSK cluster. Declaratively defined Kafka, REST, SSE, gRPC, and MQTT APIs on top of your cluster.
- Security: Integrations with AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Certificate Manager.
- Performance: Zilla proxies are stateless and scale out linearly. When multiple Zilla instances are deployed, only a single NLB is required, even if there are multiple brokers present.
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Secure Public Access (Unauthorized/SASL)
Secure Public Access (mTLS)
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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AmazonLinux 2023.7.20250623
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Version release notes
Zilla Plus 0.9.13
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Zilla Plus comes with standard enterprise support, which includes a 24x7, 8-hour SLA via email and direct messaging. Advanced enterprise support with a 2-hour SLA is additionally available. To learn more about our support offerings and engage with the team, please visit https://www.aklivity.io/support .
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Protocol Proxy
Multi-protocol proxy enabling connections for native and non-native Kafka clients to Amazon MSK cluster
Authentication Mechanisms
Supports IAM, SASL, and mTLS authentication through integrations with AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Certificate Manager
Cross-Protocol Communication
Enables routing of messages between different protocols including Kafka, REST, SSE, gRPC, and MQTT
Disaster Recovery Support
Enables deployment of custom DNS names across primary and secondary AWS regions for seamless failover without client reconfiguration
IoT Broker Capabilities
Transforms Amazon MSK into an IoT broker allowing MQTT clients to directly publish and subscribe to topics with message and client state storage
Message Delivery Protocol
Provides assured, once-only delivery of messages between applications across multiple languages, platforms, and clouds
Integration Architecture Support
Supports multiple messaging patterns including point-to-point, store and forward, request-response, and publish-subscribe with dynamic topics
Network Security
Secures messages at rest and during transportation with end-to-end encryption, data confidentiality, and integrity checking
High Availability Infrastructure
Provides intelligent workload balancing, high availability, and disaster recovery services across platforms and deployment zones
Event-Driven Architecture
Supports Kafka-based event-driven architectures as a transport and event source mechanism
Authentication and Authorization
Supports OAuth2, OpenID, SAML, and LDAP authentication with Role Based Access Controls
Monitoring and Observability
Provides fully integrated metrics, telemetry, consumer group visualizations, and Prometheus endpoint integration
Multi-Cluster Support
Capable of monitoring and managing multiple Kafka clusters, Schema Registries, and Kafka Connect resources simultaneously
Data Exploration
Enables advanced topic search with JQ predicates and supports filtering millions of records across multiple topics
Security Integration
Offers out-of-the-box HTTPS support, data masking, audit logging, and compatibility with various security providers
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