Safely remove Kafka brokers from Amazon MSK provisioned clusters
Big Data Blog
This article announces a new capability in Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) to safely remove brokers from provisioned clusters. It allows reducing storage and compute capacity by removing brokers without impacting availability, data durability, or disrupting streaming applications.
Specifically, the article covers:
- How the broker removal feature works, including steps to make brokers eligible for removal
- Considerations before removing brokers, such as checking metrics, partition counts, storage requirements, and testing in non-production environments
- Benefits of the broker removal capability, including optimizing costs and right-sizing clusters based on changing workload needs
- Conclusion highlighting the value of the new feature and encouraging its use
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