Subscribers with the same group id belong to the same subscriber group.
Subscribers with the same group id belong to the same subscriber group. Conceptually you can think of a subscriber group as being a single logical subscriber that happens to be made up of multiple processes.
Subscriber groups allow a pool of processes to divide the work of consuming and processing records. These processes can either be running on the same machine or, as is more likely, they can be distributed over many machines to provide scalability and fault tolerance for processing.