Amazon MSK now supports up to 5x more partitions on Express Brokers
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Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) has announced support for up to 5x more partitions on Express Brokers, offering significant performance improvements for various streaming workloads.
- Increased partition support from 4,000 to 20,000 per broker on m7g.16xlarge instances
- Improves price-performance by up to 50% for partition-bound workloads
- Express Brokers offer 3x more throughput and 20x faster scaling compared to Standard brokers
- Beneficial for streaming applications, microservice architectures, and data ingestion pipelines
- New partition limits help maintain cluster stability
The enhancement is available across all AWS regions with Express Brokers at no additional cost, providing more flexibility and efficiency for Kafka-based applications.
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