Azure Kafka is a
fully
managed
, cloud-based event streaming platform provided by Microsoft Azure.
It is based on Apache Kafka, an
open-source
distributed streaming platform that is used for building real-time data pipelines
Azure Kafka is a fully managed service, which means that
Microsoft
handles all of the infrastructure and maintenance tasks
Azure Kafka provides a
range of tools
and services for building, deploying, and managing Kafka-based applications
Azure Kafka adds additional features and tools to make it easier to use in the
Azure
environment.
Azure kafka is integrtaed with
azure
Security
Center, which provides security and compliance monitoring for your Kafka clusters
Azure Kafka offers strong durability and
fault tolerance,
as it stores all published messages for a configurable amount of time
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