Express brokers for Amazon MSK

Express brokers for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) are a new broker type that make Apache Kafka workloads simpler to manage, more cost effective to run at scale, and more elastic. With the same low latency that you expect from Apache Kafka, Express brokers include unlimited elastic storage capacity and intelligent rebalancing. They require no management and manual partition rebalancing, provide up to three times more throughput per broker, scale up to 20 times faster, recover 90% faster, and improve price performance, compared to Apache Kafka brokers available today.

Express brokers for Amazon MSK simplify Apache Kafka management by removing the need for deep technical expertise. With fully managed storage, automated maintenance, and flexible scaling with intelligent rebalancing, Express brokers remove the need for complex storage planning, manual partition balancing, making it easy to adjust capacity as workloads change. This allows your organization to focus on core business initiatives rather than spending time and resources on Apache Kafka operations.

Express brokers for Amazon MSK provide up to three times more sustainable throughput performance than standard brokers. Additionally, scaling Express brokers is up to 20 times faster, safer and require 50% fewer brokers than scaling standard brokers. With pay-per-use storage, which includes three-way replication by default, you can increase your price for performance.

Express brokers for Amazon MSK is continuously monitored for resource imbalance and recover brokers up to 90% faster than standard Apache Kafka brokers. This minimizes the impact of data overload and configuration errors within cluster availability and performance. With defaults for intelligent rebalance, critical cluster configurations and reserved bandwidth for background operations, such as replication and recovery, cluster availability is highly predictable and stable.