Process of Using Kafka

Distributed Message Service for Kafka is a message queuing service that is based on the open-source Apache Kafka. It provides Kafka instances with isolated computing, storage, and bandwidth resources. The following figure shows the process of message production and consumption using a Kafka instance.

Figure 1 Process of using Kafka

1. Creating an IAM User and Granting DMS for Kafka Permissions

   Create IAM users and grant them only the DMS for Kafka permissions required to perform a given task based on their job responsibilities.

2. Buying a Kafka Instance

   Kafka instances are tenant-exclusive, and physically isolated in deployment.

3. Creating a Kafka Topic

   Create a topic for storing messages so that producers can produce messages and consumers can subscribe to messages.

4. Connecting to an Instance

   The client connects to Kafka instances in a private or public network, and produces and consumes messages.