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Create your first Channel - Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

Create your first Channel

  1. Create the S3 Table bucket and the DLQ S3 bucket, and register your JSON schema in AWS Glue Schema Registry.

  2. Create the IAM service role with the required permissions and trust policy (see IAM permissions).

  3. In the Amazon MSK console, open your Express cluster, choose the Channel tab, and choose Create Channel (see Manage Channels for full steps).

  4. Wait for the Channel to transition from Creating to Active.

  5. Produce records to the topic and verify delivery by querying the Iceberg table in Athena or Spark.