Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 4.1
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Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 4.1, introducing several new features and improvements:
- Queues introduced as a preview feature, enabling multiple consumers to process messages from the same topic partitions
- New Streams Rebalance Protocol for optimized task assignments and broker coordination
- Eligible Leader Replicas (ELR) now enabled by default to improve availability
- Easy upgrade process through AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDKs
- Supports in-place rolling updates for existing MSK provisioned clusters
The update is available across all AWS regions where Amazon MSK is offered, providing improved parallelism and throughput for Kafka workloads.
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