Show HN: C++ AWS MSK IAM Auth Implementation – Goodbye Kafka Passwords

Re:Show HN: C++ AWS MSK IAM Auth Implementation – Goodbye Ka... by tuananh on Sunday March 09, 2025 @10:14PM (#43316322)

surprised since aws has sdk for c++ https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-cpp

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Re:Show HN: C++ AWS MSK IAM Auth Implementation – Goodbye Ka... by jovezhong on Sunday March 09, 2025 @10:26PM (#43316387)

I tried to find related code with iam and msk in the file names and failed. To get authenticated with MSK, need to get proper signed and pass to the MSK endpoints. Maybe AWS SDK team are just too busy or not get enough customer ask(escalations?) for using C++ to access MSK cluster with IAM only auth.

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Re:Show HN: C++ AWS MSK IAM Auth Implementation – Goodbye Ka... by zliang on Monday March 10, 2025 @12:48PM (#43322430)

Having a SDK and supporting IAM auth for MSK are different stories though. I mean, for supporting IAM auth for MAK for Java, AWS has a separate library instead of putting the code in their Java AWS SDK: https://github.com/aws/aws-msk-iam-auth.

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Re:Show HN: C++ AWS MSK IAM Auth Implementation – Goodbye Ka... by tuananh on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @12:29AM (#43329157)

yeah what i meant is that it's weird that they consider cpp is first class supported language but not having iam auth for msk - cpp.

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