Kafka Connect Preview

Aiven has announced the public preview of Kafka Connect support for its Apache Kafka service, with no extra cost during the preview period. The company is launching with support for OpenSearch connector and plans to add S3 and other connectors soon. Kafka Connect is a framework that makes it simple to define and configure connectors to stream data between different systems reliably and scalably. Aiven has provided an example of setting up a pipeline using Kafka Connect and the OpenSearch Connector for IoT device shadow use case.