u/New_Mix470

Hello community,

I was trying to design a concept where I could just act as a kafka consumer.

I want to strictly follow an event driven architecture.

Found out a solution with the ESM -lambda option where lambda will just act like a consumer.

The tricky part comes here.

The kafka producer establish the authentication with SASL oauthbearer.

But AWS ESM-Lambda doesn't support this authentication mechanism.

I heard a workaround would be going with a proxy mechanism having an ecs/ec2/msk infront of lambda to perform authentication.

I don't like to run a heavy load of infrastructure just to receive some topics.

Writing here to check are there any other alternatives?