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