
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams vs MSK: Real-Time Streaming Decision Guide
Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon MSK both handle real-time streaming on AWS, but they serve different architectures. Here is how to choose between them for your workload.
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Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon MSK both handle real-time streaming on AWS, but they serve different architectures. Here is how to choose between them for your workload.
Glue 5.1 (Spark 3.5.6, Iceberg 1.10.0) for lakehouse ETL. July 2026 refresh — Iceberg v2 vs v3, Lake Formation writes, compaction, Athena compatibility.
Glue does EL; dbt does T. July 2026 refresh — Glue 5.1 DPU economics, dbt-athena/Redshift, and the combined stack most teams converge on.
Athena still bills ~$5/TB scanned (or Capacity Reservations by DPU). July 2026 refresh — partitions, Parquet/Iceberg, workgroups, and when provisioned capacity wins.
Managed Flink for stateful streaming. July 2026 refresh — KDA name EOL, KPU + orchestration KPU, per-second billing, Flink vs Lambda decision matrix.
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