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This product has charges associated with it for seller support. Pre-configured Apache Kafka on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Launch a ready-to-run distributed event streaming platform on AWS.
Overview
Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform that provides a unified, high-throughput, low-latency solution for handling real-time data feeds. Kafka serves as a distributed event store and stream-processing platform, enabling organizations to build reliable data pipelines and event-driven architectures.
All functionality is delivered in a distributed, highly scalable, elastic, fault-tolerant, and secure manner using a binary TCP-based protocol optimized for efficiency.
Common Use Cases for Event Streaming
- Financial Services - Process payments and financial transactions in real-time for stock exchanges, banks, and insurance companies
- Logistics and Fleet Management - Track and monitor vehicles, fleets, and shipments in real-time
- IoT and Manufacturing - Continuously capture and analyze sensor data from IoT devices and industrial equipment
- Retail and E-Commerce - Collect and immediately react to customer interactions and orders
- Healthcare - Monitor patients and predict condition changes to ensure timely treatment
- Enterprise Data Integration - Connect, store, and unify data produced by different divisions of a company
- Microservices Architecture - Serve as the foundation for event-driven architectures and distributed microservices
Key Kafka Components
- Kafka Brokers - Servers forming the storage layer that run as a cluster, providing fault tolerance and high availability through data replication across multiple brokers
- Kafka Connect - A framework for building reusable data import/export connectors that integrate Kafka with external systems such as relational databases, with hundreds of ready-to-use connectors available from the community
- Kafka Streams - A client library for building stream processing applications and microservices with higher-level functions including transformations, aggregations, joins, and windowing
- Producer and Consumer APIs - Core APIs for Java and Scala that allow distributed applications to read, write, and process event streams in parallel and at scale
- Admin API - Tools to manage and inspect topics, brokers, and other Kafka objects
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Apache Kafka, Kafka, and the Kafka logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation in the United States and other countries. The software is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
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- Pre-Installed Apache Kafka on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - This AMI comes with Apache Kafka pre-installed on Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS, so you can skip manual installation and dependency management. Launch an EC2 instance and begin configuring your distributed event streaming environment without compiling from source or troubleshooting package conflicts. The image is built to reduce the operational overhead of getting Kafka running on AWS infrastructure.
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
t2.large Recommended | $0.10 |
t3.micro | $0.006 |
t2.micro | $0.006 |
d2.8xlarge | $0.60 |
t3a.small | $0.01 |
g5.8xlarge | $0.60 |
c6id.8xlarge | $0.60 |
c5d.4xlarge | $0.30 |
c6a.large | $0.10 |
i3en.3xlarge | $0.20 |
Dimensions summary
You pay by the hour for a preconfigured Kafka machine image running on Ubuntu Server 22.04, with vendor support included. Pricing is usage-based, so you are charged only for the hours each instance runs. Each dimension maps to a specific AWS EC2 instance type, priced per hour. The many options let you match the compute, memory, storage, or GPU profile you need. Larger or specialized instance types carry higher hourly rates than smaller general-purpose ones. You can start, stop, and scale instances as your streaming workload requires, without any upfront commitment.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
You get a preconfigured Kafka image on Ubuntu Server 22.04 running on one AWS EC2 instance of the chosen type, plus vendor support. The instance type sets your compute, memory, storage, and any GPU. You pay per hour that instance runs.
The software fee meters running hours only. A stopped instance does not accrue the hourly software charge. You may still pay underlying AWS storage costs for attached volumes while the instance is stopped, billed separately by AWS.
Yes. Each instance type carries its own hourly rate. Switching to a type with more compute, memory, storage, or GPU changes the hourly rate you pay. You are billed at the rate of whichever type is running, for the hours it runs.
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An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Connect to EC2 Linux instance - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstances.html ( Port - 22 and Username - ubuntu)
Apache Kafka - Use the following steps:
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Kafka Server Port : 9092
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Please follow document - https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#quickstart_startserver
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Start Kafka Environment: Run the following commands in order to start all services in the correct order - sudo systemctl start zookeeper sudo systemctl start kafka
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Create a Topic in Kafka by running command - cd /usr/local/kafka bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --topic quickstart-events --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 bin/kafka-topics.sh --describe --topic quickstart-events --bootstrap-server localhost:9092
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Write events into Topic - Run the console producer client to write a few events into your topic: bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --topic quickstart-events --bootstrap-server localhost:9092
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Read the events - run the console consumer client to read the events created: bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --topic quickstart-events --from-beginning --bootstrap-server localhost:9092
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