Amazon MSK Connect now supports pausing and resuming connectors
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Amazon MSK Connect now supports pausing and resuming connectors, allowing temporary suspension of record processing without deletion or recreation.
- Pause connectors during maintenance on source databases or sink targets
- Investigate upstream or downstream issues without losing connector state
- Paused connectors retain configuration, capacity settings, and committed offsets
- Tasks resume processing from last committed offsets when restarted
- Available at no additional cost via Console, CLI, SDK, and CDK
This eliminates the need to delete and recreate connectors, reducing operational overhead and risk during maintenance windows.
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