AWS Big Data Blog
Author: Todd McGrath
Reduce network traffic costs of your Amazon MSK consumers with rack awareness
May 2025: This post was reviewed and the CloudFormation template was updated for accuracy Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) runs Apache Kafka clusters for you in the cloud. Although using cloud services means you don’t have to manage racks of servers any more, we take advantage of rack aware features in Apache […]