Amazon MSK introduces KRaft support for Express Brokers with Apache Kafka v3.9
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This article announces Amazon MSK support for Apache Kafka v3.9 on Express Brokers, introducing KRaft consensus protocol support.
- KRaft eliminates Apache ZooKeeper dependency for metadata management
- Metadata stored and replicated as topics within Kafka brokers
- Faster metadata propagation across clusters
- New Express Broker clusters automatically use KRaft with v3.9
- Existing cluster upgrades to v3.9 coming in future release
- Available in all AWS regions supporting MSK Express
Amazon MSK Express now supports Kafka v3.9 with KRaft, modernizing metadata management and improving cluster performance.
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