Amazon MSK now provides up to 29% higher throughput and 24% lower costs for Kafka workloads by leveraging AWS Graviton3 processors with M7g instances, delivering improved price-performance for streaming data applications.

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<p>This blog post discusses the new support for AWS Graviton3-based (M7g) instances in Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), which provides higher throughput and lower costs compared to M5 instances.</p>
<p>Specifically, the article covers:</p>
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<li>Overview of M7g instances and their benefits for Kafka workloads on Amazon MSK, including up to 29% higher read and write throughput, and up to 24% lower compute costs compared to M5 instances</li>
<li>Performance benchmarks comparing M7g.4xlarge and M5.4xlarge instances, showing 29% higher throughput and 40% lower CPU utilization for M7g instances</li>
<li>Cost savings and operational benefits of using Amazon MSK with M7g instances, such as lower storage costs with Tiered Storage and reduced operational overhead</li>
<li>Availability of M7g instances for Amazon MSK in multiple AWS regions and pricing information</li>
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Amazon MSK now provides up to 29% more throughput and up to 24% lower costs with AWS Graviton3 support

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