Amazon MSK announces support for additional Graviton-3 (m7g) instance sizes for Express Brokers

Today, Amazon MSK announced the availability of four additional instance sizes of Graviton3-based M7g instances for Express Brokers. With this launch, you now have seven different instance sizes to choose from to host Express Brokers in Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), ranging from large to 16xlarge.

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.

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