Simplifying Kafka on AWS MSK

A Live Hands-On Workshop

Amazon MSK handles the infrastructure, but as Kafka adoption grows, platform teams hit friction beyond broker management:

• Cross-network connectivity
• Authentication for applications outside of AWS IAM (e.g. an external application that needs to authenticate with OIDC or mTLS with custom certificates)
• Efficient multitenancy for non-production and developer sandbox environments

This workshop explores all three problems and provides solutions using Conduktor Gateway, a flexible, Kafka-aware proxy. You'll work in a live AWS environment across three hands-on labs. You will leave knowing how to use Conduktor Gateway to solve these challenges within AWS MSK.

What You'll Build

• Route Kafka traffic through a single proxy endpoint. No per-broker networking config.
• Onboard a new application without touching IAM or MSK configuration.
• Run Dev and QA on a single MSK cluster with full isolation between environments.

Future workshops will cover additional capabilities like disaster recovery, field-level encryption, data quality enforcement, and protecting Kafka from poorly configured clients.

Who Should Attend

This workshop is designed for:

• Platform engineers operating Kafka on AWS
• Architects designing streaming platforms
• Developers building Kafka applications
• Teams currently using or evaluating Amazon MSK

Participants should have a basic understanding of Kafka concepts.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, April 28 Time: 2:00 PM ET Duration: 90 minutes