# Simplifying Kafka on AWS MSK (EMEA)

### A Live Hands-On Workshop

Amazon MSK handles the infrastructure, but as Kafka adoption grows, platform teams hit friction beyond broker management:

- Cross-network connectivity
- Authentication for applications outside of AWS IAM (e.g. an external application that needs to authenticate with OIDC or mTLS with custom certificates)
- Efficient multitenancy for non-production and developer sandbox environments

This workshop explores all three problems and provides solutions using Conduktor Gateway, a flexible, Kafka-aware proxy. You'll work in a live AWS environment across three hands-on labs. You will leave knowing how to use Conduktor Gateway to solve these challenges within AWS MSK.

### What You'll Build

- Route Kafka traffic through a single proxy endpoint. No per-broker networking config.
- Onboard a new application without touching IAM or MSK configuration.
- Run Dev and QA on a single MSK cluster with full isolation between environments.

Future workshops will cover additional capabilities like disaster recovery, field-level encryption, data quality enforcement, and protecting Kafka from poorly configured clients.

### Who Should Attend

This workshop is designed for:

- Platform engineers operating Kafka on AWS
- Architects designing streaming platforms
- Developers building Kafka applications
- Teams currently using or evaluating **Amazon MSK**

Participants should have a basic understanding of Kafka concepts.

### Event Details

**Date:** Wednesday, May 13
**Time:** 3:00 PM CET
**Duration:** 90 minutes

Register for this workshop