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Decodable vs. Amazon MSF
Unlock the power of real-time data
Decodable provides fully managed connectors and a simple development experience. Amazon MSF doesn't.
MSF's challenges can be costly
Poor developer experience
Hard to scale
Expensive to operate
Limited support
But there’s a better way to get the job done.
Deliver data reliably to any destination
Skip tuning, configuring, and managing infrastructure.
Connect
Use Flink across all your source and destination systems
- Extensive catalog of managed connectors including CDC
- Multi-stream connectors to simplify connections and reduce load
- Automated schema inference and evolution support
Build
Simplify the development of stream processing pipelines
- SQL, Java, and Python support for different users and use cases
- Developer-friendly experience with CLI, Web UI, and unified APIs
- Automate job configuration for faster real-time application development
Deploy
Flexible deployment options that align with operational and security requirements
- Fully hosted (managed cloud) for ease of use
- Bring Your Own Cloud option for data privacy and sovereignty
- Zero infrastructure provisioning with automated scaling
Observe
Monitor and track utilization metrics to prevent runaway or over-provisioned jobs
- Out-of-the-box performance metrics and error monitoring for connectors
- Built-in tools to standardize and unify metrics across connectors and pipelines
- Seamless integration with external monitoring tools
Secure
Protect against unauthorized access and comply with regulations like SOC2 Type II and GDPR
- Role-based access control restricts access to connections, streams, and pipelines
- Score credentials securely with authentication and secrets management
- Comprehensive monitoring and auditing tracks all changes and resource states
Maintain
Ensure operational efficiency at scale with automation that reduces overhead and costs
- Fully managed with automated scalability, state management, failover, and upgrades
- Consumption-based pricing with no hidden costs or need for manual optimization
- Proactive monitoring and support from our team of Flink experts
What Decodable brings to the table
The fully-managed, auto-optimized, real-time data platform powered by Apache Flink and Debezium.
Decodable is simpler to use and scale compared to MSF, requiring far less effort and expertise to build, deploy, and manage Flink jobs and pipelines. With out-of-the-box fully managed connectors and the ability to write SQL for data transformations, you can build pipelines faster.
Scaling to hundreds or thousands of Flink jobs on MSF would require significant expertise and engineering resources. Decodable abstracts away the complexity by allowing users to specify task-based settings, and the platform dynamically configures the workload, adjusting resources, memory, I/O, and timeouts for optimal performance without manual intervention.
Decodable’s pricing model is more attractive for massively scaling real-time data pipelines, avoiding the high fixed per-job costs of MSF. It provides more granular resource allocation options offering both scale up and scale out options compared to the large jumps in MSF based on Kinesis Processing Units.
Decodable's fully managed platform allows companies to focus on developing the business logic of their stream processing jobs. Decodable provides 24/7/365 enterprise support with SLA-backed response times, compared to MSF which only provides community support on a best-effort basis.
8 Reasons to Choose Decodable Over Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
Quick Comparison
"We’re using Decodable to ingest nearly two terabytes of data a day. We've seen firsthand how Decodable accelerates the development of AI applications. Our engineers swiftly created a prototype in just 12 days, allowing us to expedite the launch of our AI product within two months."
Lior Solomon
VP of Data Engineering at Drata
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