ApsaraMQ for Kafka provides fully managed, O&M-free connectors for synchronizing data between ApsaraMQ for Kafka and other Alibaba Cloud services, including cross-region scenarios.
The connector feature is independent of ApsaraMQ for Kafka instances and incurs no ApsaraMQ for Kafka charges. Alibaba Cloud does not provide a service level agreement (SLA) for the connector feature. For SLAs and pricing of the dependent services, see the documentation of each service.
Connector types
ApsaraMQ for Kafka supports the following types of connectors:
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Sink connector: Synchronizes data from ApsaraMQ for Kafka to other Alibaba Cloud services.
Connector
Description
References
FC sink connector
Synchronizes data from ApsaraMQ for Kafka to Function Compute.
MaxCompute sink connector
Synchronizes data from ApsaraMQ for Kafka to MaxCompute.
OSS sink connector
Synchronizes data from ApsaraMQ for Kafka to Object Storage Service (OSS).
Elasticsearch sink connector
Synchronizes data from ApsaraMQ for Kafka to Elasticsearch.
Tablestore sink connector
Synchronizes data from ApsaraMQ for Kafka to Tablestore.
AnalyticDB sink connector
Synchronizes data from ApsaraMQ for Kafka to AnalyticDB for MySQL or AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL.
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Source connector: Synchronizes data from other Alibaba Cloud services to ApsaraMQ for Kafka.
Connector
Description
References
MySQL source connector
Synchronizes data from ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL to ApsaraMQ for Kafka.
Use a connector
To use a connector, perform the following steps:
Limits
The connector feature of ApsaraMQ for Kafka has the following limits.
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Number of connectors |
Each ApsaraMQ for Kafka instance supports up to 20 connectors. You can create multiple connector tasks to export data from the same instance to different services. |
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Region |
The connector feature is unavailable in specific regions. For more information, see Service Regions. |
Synchronize data across regions
To synchronize data between Alibaba Cloud services deployed in different regions, enable Internet access for the connector. For more information, see Enable Internet access for a connector.
To use a MySQL source connector for cross-region data synchronization, you must activate Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN). For more information, see Create a MySQL source connector.