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Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

Why MSK?

Getting started with Amazon MSK is easy. Within the Amazon MSK console, CLI, or SDK, provide your subnets that you want your Amazon MSK cluster to privately connect to, specify the number of brokers and the storage you need per broker, and create your Amazon MSK cluster.

For detailed step-by-step instructions, see Getting Started in the Amazon MSK documentation.

Getting started

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How it works

You can learn about how Amazon MSK works in the What is Amazon MSK section of our documentation.

What is Amazon MSK

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Get started

In the Getting Started guide, our tutorial shows you how to set up for an Amazon MSK cluster, download libraries and tools, create the cluster, produce and consume data.

Getting Started guide

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Monitor your cluster

Finally, the last steps of the Getting Started guide show you how to monitor the health of your cluster using Amazon CloudWatch metrics, and how to delete your Amazon MSK cluster when you are done.

monitor

Documentation

Developer guide

HTML | PDF

Provides a conceptual overview of Amazon MSK and includes detailed instructions for using the service.

API reference

HTML | PDF

Describes the API resources and operations for Amazon MSK. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.

AWS SDKs

AWS SDKs

AWS Streaming Data Solution for Amazon MSK

AWS Streaming Data Solution for Amazon MSK

Webinars

What's new with Amazon MSK

Amazon MSK expands Express Brokers to Mexico (Central) and Asia Pacific (Thailand) regions

06/17/2025

Express Brokers in Amazon MSK now support Apache Kafka version 3.8

06/10/2025

Amazon MSK is now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions

05/19/2025

Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 4.0

05/19/2025

Amazon MSK enables seamless certificate renewals on MSK Provisioned clusters

05/07/2025

Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 3.9

04/21/2025

Amazon MSK expands support for Graviton3 based M7g instances for Standard and Express brokers in AWS Middle East (UAE) Region

04/09/2025

Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 3.8

02/21/2025

Amazon MSK expands Express Brokers to 10 more AWS Regions

02/06/2025

Amazon MSK announces support for additional Graviton-3 (m7g) instance sizes for Express Brokers

01/15/2025