Amazon MSK now supports in-place upgrades from M5 and T3 instance types to Graviton3-based M7G instances, enabling up to 24% cost savings and up to 29% higher throughput, while lowering energy consumption by up to 60%.

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<p>This article announces that Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports in-place upgrades from X-86 based M5 or T3 instances to AWS Graviton3-based M7G instances for provisioned clusters.</p>
<p>Specifically, the article covers:</p>
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<li>Upgrading to M7G instances provides up to 24% compute cost savings and up to 29% higher throughput compared to M5 instances</li>
<li>M7G instances lower energy consumption by up to 60%, making Kafka clusters more environmentally sustainable</li>
<li>In-place upgrades allow seamless switching to M7G instances while continuing to serve client applications</li>
<li>The upgrade is available in all AWS regions that support M7G instances for MSK</li>
<li>Users can update existing clusters to M7G brokers using the AWS Management Console or developer guide</li>
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