Amazon MSK supports in-place upgrades from M5, T3 instance types to Graviton3 based M7G

You can now upgrade your Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) provisioned clusters running on X-86 based M5 or T3 instances and replace them with AWS Graviton3-based M7G instances with a single click of a button. In-place upgrades allows you to seamlessly switch over your existing provisioned clusters to M7G instance type for better price performance, while continuing to serve reads and writes for your connecting client applications.

Switching to AWS Graviton3 processor based M7G instances on Amazon MSK provisioned clusters allows you to achieve up to 24% compute cost savings and up to 29% higher write and read throughput over comparable MSK clusters running on M5 instances. Additionally, these instances lower energy consumption by up to 60% than comparable instances, making your Kafka clusters more environmentally sustainable.

In-place upgrades to M7G instances are now available in all AWS regions where MSK supports M7G. Please refer to our blog for more information on the price/ performance improvements of M7g instances and the Amazon MSK pricing page for information on pricing. To get started, you can update your existing clusters to M7G brokers using the AWS Management Console, and read our developer guide for more information.