Managed Service for Apache Kafka limitations

  • Managed Service for Apache Kafka requires each cluster to have equal resources in each of the three zones. Single-zone or two-zone Managed Service for Apache Kafka clusters are not supported.

  • You cannot choose the zones when you create the cluster.

  • You cannot configure the volume of local storage on a cluster.

  • Managed Service for Apache Kafka runs in the KRaft mode. Zookeeper mode is not supported.

  • VPC Service Controls is not supported. You cannot create a cluster in a VPC Service Controls security perimeter.

  • Managed Service for Apache Kafka does not offer a schema registry or a Kafka Connect API. It can be used with open source and third-party services implementations of these APIs.

  • JMX APIs for metrics are not supported.

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