Securing and Monitoring Your Data Pipeline: Best Practices for Kafka, AWS RDS, Lambda, and API Gateway Integration

There are several steps involved in implementing a data pipeline that integrates Apache Kafka with AWS RDS and uses AWS Lambda and API Gateway to feed data into a web application. Here is a high-level overview of how to architect this solution:

1. Set Up Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that is capable of handling trillions of events a day. To set up Kafka, you can either install it on an EC2 instance or use Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK), which is a fully managed service that makes it easy to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data.

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