Kafka S3 connector for enterprise-grade data flows
Feature-packed, Apache 2 licensed, fully open-source and available with enterprise support.
The most powerful Kafka S3 Connector out there
Amazon S3 is the de facto cloud storage solution, and a strategic component of any Apache Kafka running in AWS.
Built by the biggest contributors to open-source Kafka connectors, the Lenses Kafka S3 connector offers more flexibility and power to address S3 data integration challenges, whilst avoiding vendor-lock in.
What can you do with the Kafka to S3 connector?
Backup/Restore Kafka Topics
Save on disaster recovery infrastructure costs by backing up data in S3.
Hydrate your Data Lake
Sink to S3 whilst optimizing for downstream analytics.
Simplify sourcing from S3
Source new, complex data sources such as XML.
Power event-driven apps & GenAI
Feed downstream event-driven apps with data sitting in S3.
Kafka S3 connector architecture
Kafka with Amazon S3: Architecture & top use cases
An architecture pattern for sending data back and forth between Apache Kafka and Amazon S3, to address a range of use cases:
See the connector in action
Single-click backup/restore when managed through Lenses
How to source XML files in Amazon S3 into a Kafka topic. Then query it with SQL.
- Deploy a Kafka source connector from Lenses
- Pull in the XML data from Kafka
- Download it to CSV
