Amazon MSK expands support for Graviton3 based M7g instances for Standard brokers in 8 more AWS Regions

Posted on: Aug 19, 2025

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Graviton3-based M7g instances for Standard brokers for MSK Provisioned clusters in AWS GovCloud (US-West), AWS GovCloud (US-East), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Regions.

Graviton M7g instances for Standard brokers deliver up to 24% compute cost savings and up to 29% higher write and read throughput over comparable MSK clusters running on M5 instances.

Visit the AWS Regions page for all the regions where Amazon MSK is available. To learn more, check out our blog on M7g based Standard brokers. To get started, see the Amazon MSK Developer Guide.