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Feature•Jun 22, 2026

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

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)AWS · Analytics

Amazon MSK now offers AI Agent Skills that give AI coding assistants expert, up-to-date guidance for operating Amazon MSK. The skills provide expert guidance for common operational tasks such as troubleshooting, sizing, configuring, monitoring, and migration from external Kafka clusters.

Teams can leverage these skills to keep their clusters healthy and performant, and to migrate their external Kafka workloads to MSK Express to take advantage of up to 3 times more throughput per broker, scale up to 20 times faster, and reduced recovery time by 90 percent as compared to Standard brokers running Apache Kafka. The skills turn tasks that once required specialized knowledge into a guided experience developers can complete quickly, on their own.

You can use the MSK skills with your existing AI coding agent - Kiro, Claude Code, or Cursor. To get started, configure the Agent Toolkit for AWS using the AWS CLI, then ask your coding agent a question, such as "What broker type and size should I use for my MSK cluster?" or "Is my Kafka cluster compatible with MSK Express?"

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