Express brokers for Amazon MSK is now generally available
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The article announces the general availability of Express brokers for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), a new broker type designed to provide higher throughput, faster scaling, and quicker recovery times compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Express brokers deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers
- Express brokers come preconfigured with Kafka best practices, support all Kafka APIs, and provide low-latency performance
- Customers can provision, scale up, and scale down Kafka cluster capacity in minutes, offload storage management, and build highly resilient applications
- Express brokers are available in multiple AWS regions and charged on a pay-as-you-go basis for hourly usage, storage, and data ingested
- Conclusion: Express brokers allow customers to benefit from enhanced performance and scalability while continuing to use existing Amazon MSK features and integrations
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