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ApsaraMQ for Kafka provides fully managed and O&M-free connectors that allow you to synchronize data between ApsaraMQ for Kafka and other Alibaba Cloud services. This topic describes the types of connectors and the procedure and limits of using connectors. This topic also describes how to use connectors to synchronize data between services in different regions.

Important

The connector feature of ApsaraMQ for Kafka is in public preview and independent of ApsaraMQ for Kafka instances. ApsaraMQ for Kafka does not charge you for the connector feature. Alibaba Cloud does not provide a service level agreement (SLA) for the connector feature. For information about SLAs and pricing of other services that are required to use the connector feature, see the documentation of the related services.

Connector types

ApsaraMQ for Kafka supports the following types of connectors:

Sink connector: Sink connectors are used to synchronize data from ApsaraMQ for Kafka to other Alibaba Cloud services.

Connector	Description	References
FC sink connector	Synchronizes data from ApsaraMQ for Kafka to Function Compute.	Create a Function Compute sink connector
MaxCompute sink connector	Synchronizes data from ApsaraMQ for Kafka to MaxCompute.	Create a MaxCompute sink connector
OSS sink connector	Synchronizes data from ApsaraMQ for Kafka to Object Storage Service (OSS).	Creates an OSS sink connector
Elasticsearch sink connector	Synchronizes data from ApsaraMQ for Kafka to Elasticsearch.	Create an Elasticsearch sink connector
DLA sink connector	Synchronizes data from ApsaraMQ for Kafka to Data Lake Analytics (DLA).	Create a DLA sink connector
Tablestore sink connector	Synchronizes data from ApsaraMQ for Kafka to Tablestore.	Create a Tablestore sink connector
AnalyticDB sink connector	Synchronizes data from ApsaraMQ for Kafka to AnalyticDB for MySQL or AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL.	Create an AnalyticDB sink connector

Source connector: Source connectors are used to synchronize data from other Alibaba Cloud services to ApsaraMQ for Kafka.
Connector
Description
References
MySQL source connector
Synchronizes data from ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL to ApsaraMQ for Kafka.
Create a MySQL source connector

Use a connector

To use a connector, perform the following steps:

Limits

The following limits are imposed on the connector feature of ApsaraMQ for Kafka.

Item	Limit
Number of connectors	You can create up to 20 connectors for an ApsaraMQ for Kafka instance. You can create multiple connector tasks to export data from the same ApsaraMQ for Kafka instance to different services.
Region	The connector feature is unavailable in specific regions. For more information, see Supported regions.

Synchronize data across regions

If you want to use a connector to synchronize data between Alibaba Cloud services that are deployed in different regions, you must enable Internet access for the connector and then synchronize the data over the Internet. For more information, see Enable Internet access for a connector.

Note

If you want to use a MySQL source connector to synchronize data across regions, you must activate Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN). For more information, see Create a MySQL source connector.