Amazon MSK expands Standard Brokers and Express Brokers to Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region. Customers can create Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters in this region starting today.

Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to more quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you spend more time building innovative streaming applications and less time managing Kafka clusters.

Amazon MSK offers two types of Apache Kafka provisioned broker - Standard brokers and Express brokers. Standard brokers offer the most flexibility to configure your cluster’s performance. You can configure availability, durability, throughput, and latency. You also control the storage configurations on your cluster and are responsible for managing storage provisioning and utilization. Express brokers are a new broker type for Amazon MSK Provisioned designed to deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, up to 5x more partitions per broker, and reduce recovery time by 90% as compared to Standard brokers. Express brokers come pre-configured with Kafka best practices by default, support all Kafka APIs, and provide the same low-latency performance that Amazon MSK customers expect, so they can continue using existing client applications without any changes.

You can now create an MSK provisioned cluster with Standard or Express brokers in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region through the Amazon MSK console or the Amazon CLI. To get started, see the Amazon MSK Developer Guide.