Posted On: Apr 24, 2025
Today, we announce Express brokers for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) are available in Amazon Web Services China Regions. 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, and reduce recovery time by 90% as compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers. Express brokers come preconfigured 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.
With Express brokers, customers can provision, scale up, and scale down Kafka cluster capacity in minutes, offload storage management with virtually unlimited pay-as-you-go storage, and build highly resilient applications. Customers can also continue using all of the Amazon MSK key features, including security, connectivity, and observability options, as well as popular integrations, including Amazon MSK Connect, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Glue Schema Registry, and more. Express brokers are currently available on Kafka version 3.6 and come in three different sizes of Graviton3-based M7g instances: large, 4xlarge, and 16xlarge. Each broker is charged an hourly rate with storage and data ingested charged separately on a pay-as-you-go basis. MSK Express brokers are now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.
To learn more, check out the Amazon MSK overview page, pricing page, and developer guide.
