Zilla Plus

Zilla Plus is a Kafka-native edge and service proxy. It is a flexible, secure, and reliable way of creating stateless API entry points into your Apache Kafka cluster for both native and non-native Kafka clients, removing the need for Kafka Connectors, integration pipelines, custom code, and VPNs.

Use Zilla Plus to securely expose your Kafka cluster to external partners, decouple clients and brokers for disaster recovery, stream data to web/mobile apps for real-time experiences, turn Kafka into an IoT broker, and more!

[SECURE KAFKA GATEWAY] Enable authorized clients to access your Kafka cluster via a custom domain name over the internet with no changes to underlying brokers. Supports IAM, SASL and mTLS authentication via integrations with AWS Secrets Manager.

Multiple Zilla Plus instances require only a single NLB, even if there are multiple brokers. The presence of an NLB ensures that publicly reachable Zilla Plus endpoints to Kafka can be DDoS-protected via AWS Shield.

[VIRTUAL CLUSTERS] Logically segment a single Kafka cluster to enable multiple independent client groups to operate in isolation. You can define multiple virtual clusters over the same physical Kafka system, allowing different teams or applications to have isolated environments.

[DISASTER RECOVERY] Deploy HAQM Kafka custom DNS name via Zilla Plus in both primary and secondary AWS regions to support seamless disaster recovery via DNS record update to secondary AWS region without needing to reconfigure Kafka clients due to consistent bootstrap server name.

[WEB STREAMING] Expose Kafka topics via SSE (Server Sent Events) endpoints and stream messages to web and mobile clients at scale with reliability and security. Create REST endpoints for clients to POST and PUT updates back into Kafka topics.

[IOT INGEST & CONTROL] Turn Kafka into a fully-fledged IoT broker, enabling MQTT clients to directly publish and subscribe to topics. Both MQTT messages and client state are stored in Kafka, removing the need for a separate dedicated MQTT broker.

[GRPC-KAFKA EVENT MESH] Turn Kafka into a gRPC server and route service method requests and responses to and from topics. Fan out messages from an Kafka topic to multiple gRPC clients or proxy messages between a gRPC client and server through Kafka, allowing them to communicate as if they are talking directly to each other.