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Amazon MSK

Official docs outline

9 sections
  1. What is MSK

    Managed Apache Kafka clusters, brokers, topics and partitions on AWS.

  2. MSK Provisioned

    Broker types, storage, cluster configurations, scaling and security for provisioned clusters.

  3. MSK Serverless

    Capacity-managed Kafka clusters that scale automatically with IAM authentication.

  4. IAM access control

    Authenticating and authorizing Kafka clients with IAM instead of mTLS or SASL.

  5. Broker configuration

    Custom cluster configurations and standard broker configuration properties.

  6. MSK Connect

    Running Kafka Connect source and sink connectors with plugins and workers.

  7. MSK Replicator

    Replicating topics and consumer offsets between clusters and Regions.

  8. MSK integrations

    Using MSK with Lambda, Glue Schema Registry, Firehose and Flink.

  9. Quotas

    Cluster, broker, partition and connector limits.

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Versions and support

6 release lines
4.2.x latest release, Jul 15, 2026
LineReleasedLatestSupport
4.2 Jul 15, 2026 4.2.x Supported
4.1 Oct 15, 2025 4.1.x Supported
4.0 May 16, 2025 4.0.x Supported
3.9 Apr 21, 2025 3.9.x Supported
3.8 Feb 20, 2025 3.8.x Supported
3.7 May 29, 2024 3.7.x Ended Sep 1, 2026

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