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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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