Amazon MSK Express Brokers now support automatic topic creation with Kafka Streams

Effective today, Amazon MSK Express Brokers support automatic topic creation with Kafka Streams. Customers can now deploy their Kafka Streams applications on Express Brokers without needing to manually pre-createor manage topics for stateful operations.

MSK Express Brokers are designed to deliver up to three times more throughput per broker, scale up to 20 times faster, and reduce recovery time by 90 percent. Kafka Streams uses topics to store state and repartition data for stateful operations. Previously, customers running Kafka Streams with Express Brokers had to manually name and pre-create these topics before deploying their application. With this launch, these topics are created automatically when the application starts, simplifying deployment and reducing operational setup for Kafka Streams applications on Express Brokers.

This capability is available today in all AWS regions where MSK Express Brokers are available. No additional configuration or setup is required to get started. To learn more, see Amazon MSK Developer Guide.