100% Kafka parity on Event Hubs: Kafka Streams and Kafka Transactions now in Public Preview

We are very excited to announce this. Public Preview of Kafka Streams and Kafka Transactions We are bringing the feature to Azure Event Hubs in Premium and Dedicated tiers. With this, Event Hubs now achieves 100% Kafka compatibility up to Apache Kafka version 3.0, further leveraging the Apache Kafka ecosystem and empowering customers who want to leverage Apache Kafka APIs on Azure Event Hubs, a fully managed real-time data ingestion service.

Kafka Stream A client library for building applications and microservices that process data in real time from multiple Kafka topics. Kafka Transactions Allows atomically producing and consuming messages across multiple partitions and topics in a Kafka cluster. Support for this capability in Azure Event Hubs can serve as a drop-in replacement for bringing Apache Kafka workloads to the cloud with very simple configuration changes. Migration Guide.

We encourage you to try out Kafka Streams and Kafka Transactions features on the Premium and Dedicated tiers of Azure Event Hubs and share your feedback. Learn more about these features in the documentation listed below.

You can also check out the following resources to learn more about integrating Kafka with Azure Event Hubs: