Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)

AWS Transform now supports Apache Kafka migration assessments for Amazon MSK

You can now use AWS Transform agentic migration assessments to evaluate the migration of on-premises Apache Kafka clusters to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK).

Amazon MSK Connect now supports restarting connectors

Amazon MSK Connect (Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Connect) supports restarting newly created connectors and their tasks, enabling fast recovery for streaming data pipelines.

MSK Replicator now supports OAuth 2.0 (SASL/OAUTHBEARER) authentication for replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to Amazon MSK

Amazon MSK Replicator now supports OAuth 2.0 (SASL/OAUTHBEARER) authentication for data replication from external Apache Kafka clusters - including on-premises, self-managed on AWS, or other cloud providers - to Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters.

Amazon MSK now supports configuring custom domain names for MSK Provisioned clusters

You can now easily configure custom domain names on Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters, on either ZooKeeper or KRaft mode for metadata management.

Amazon MSK now supports in-place migration from Apache ZooKeeper to KRaft

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports in-place migration from Apache ZooKeeper to KRaft, enabling customers to migrate existing clusters to KRaft without provisioning new infrastructure, migrating data, or reconfiguring client applications.

Amazon MSK now delivers Kafka Authorizer Logs to customers

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now supports Authorizer Log Delivery for Provisioned clusters, including both Standard and Express brokers, at no additional cost.

AWS Glue Schema Registry is now available in ten more AWS regions

You can now use the AWS Glue Schema Registry, a serverless and free feature of AWS Glue, in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Mexico (Central), Israel (Tel…

Amazon MSK Express brokers now delivers Apache Kafka data to Amazon S3

Amazon MSK Express brokers now delivers data to Amazon S3 general purpose buckets, providing a fully managed capability to deliver Apache Kafka data in Amazon S3 for downstream processing in the easiest and most reliable way.

Amazon MSK Express brokers now deliver data to streaming tables for Apache Iceberg

, a new capability that continuously materializes Apache Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3 Tables.

Amazon MSK Express Brokers adds support for Apache Kafka version 4.2

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Express Brokers now supports Apache Kafka version 4.2. This release includes Eligible Leader Replicas (ELR) enhancements that strengthen availability with improved leader election correctness.

Amazon MSK Replicator now supports replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Standard brokers

Amazon MSK Replicator now supports data replication from external Apache Kafka clusters - including on-premises, self-managed on AWS, or other cloud providers to Amazon MSK Standard brokers.

MSK Replicator now supports mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication for replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Express brokers

Amazon MSK Replicator now supports mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication for data replication from external Apache Kafka clusters - including on-premises, self-managed on AWS, or other cloud providers - to Amazon MSK Express brokers.

Amazon MSK now offers AI Agent Skills to help developers operate MSK efficiently and accelerate migrations to MSK

Amazon MSK now offers AI Agent Skills that give AI coding assistants expert, up-to-date guidance for operating Amazon MSK.

Amazon MSK Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing on existing clusters

Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters with Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing on all existing clusters, at no additional cost.

Amazon MSK Express Brokers now support automatic topic creation with Kafka Streams

Effective today, Amazon MSK Express Brokers support automatic topic creation with Kafka Streams. Customers can now deploy their Kafka Streams applications on Express Brokers without needing to manually pre-create or manage topics for stateful operations.

Amazon MSK Serverless expands to 13 new AWS regions

You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK Serverless in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific…

Amazon MSK Replicator now supports enhanced consumer offset synchronization for bidirectional replication

Amazon MSK Replicator now provides enhanced consumer offset synchronization for bidirectional replication, enabling applications to resume processing from the correct position when moving across Kafka clusters.

MSK Replicator now supports replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Express Brokers

Amazon MSK Replicator now supports data replication from external Apache Kafka clusters—including on-premises, self-managed on AWS, or other cloud providers—to Amazon MSK Express brokers.

Amazon MSK Replicator now supports log forwarding for replication visibility

Amazon MSK Replicator now delivers replicator logs to give you end-to-end visibility into replication health.

AWS Glue Schema Registry is now available in three more AWS regions

You can now use the AWS Glue Schema Registry, a serverless and free feature of AWS Glue, in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich) regions to validate and control the evolution of streaming data using registered Apache Avro, JSON, and Protobuf schema…