Bridge AWS IoT Core and Confluent Cloud to Contextualize Your IoT Data

This post details the technical steps and configuration required to integrate AWS IoT Core with Confluent Cloud. It covers setting up Confluent Cloud with API keys and topics, configuring AWS Secrets Manager to store Confluent credentials, establishing an AWS IoT Core destination for Kafka, and creating an AWS IoT Core rule to route MQTT messages to a Confluent Cloud Kafka topic. It also includes optional debugging steps using error actions and AWS IoT Core logging.