[d_t_w]

Confluent Cloud has some nice point-and-click UI for creating associated Kafka resources like Schema Registries and Connect Clusters.

My preference is MSK but I'm very comfortable with vanilla Kafka in AWS at a good price with auto-updates.

[tamale]

One nice thing about confluent cloud vs MSK is the minimum cost of a confluent cloud cluster is far, far cheaper than the minimal cost of an MSK cluster