Amazon MSK
Official docs outline
9 sections- What is MSK
Managed Apache Kafka clusters, brokers, topics and partitions on AWS.
- MSK Provisioned
Broker types, storage, cluster configurations, scaling and security for provisioned clusters.
- MSK Serverless
Capacity-managed Kafka clusters that scale automatically with IAM authentication.
- IAM access control
Authenticating and authorizing Kafka clients with IAM instead of mTLS or SASL.
- Broker configuration
Custom cluster configurations and standard broker configuration properties.
- MSK Connect
Running Kafka Connect source and sink connectors with plugins and workers.
- MSK Replicator
Replicating topics and consumer offsets between clusters and Regions.
- MSK integrations
Using MSK with Lambda, Glue Schema Registry, Firehose and Flink.
- Quotas
Cluster, broker, partition and connector limits.
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Versions and support
6 release lines| Line | Released | Latest | Support |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Source: endoflife.date