Amazon MSK expands its open preview into Ohio and Ireland AWS regions, and adds support for Apache Kafka 2.1.0

Posted on: Feb 13, 2019

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in three AWS regions: N. Virginia (us-east-1), Ohio (us-east-2) and Ireland (eu-west-1). Customers also have the option to create new clusters with Apache Kafka version 2.1.0 or 1.1.1.  

Amazon MSK is available in open preview and is accessible to any AWS customer. Visit the Amazon MSK webpage for more details or follow the getting started guide to get a cluster up and running in minutes.