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Express Brokers in Amazon MSK now support Apache Kafka version 3.8

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Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) has released support for Apache Kafka version 3.8 on Express Brokers, bringing several key improvements:

  • Enhanced data compression capabilities
  • Ability to configure compression levels for lz4, zstd, and gzip formats
  • Precise control over compression efficiency and resource usage
  • Supports creating new clusters or upgrading existing ones with version 3.8

Users can refer to the Apache Kafka 3.8.0 release notes for detailed information about specific improvements and bug fixes in this update.



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