Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in Africa (Cape Town)

You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK in the Africa (Cape Town) AWS Region.

Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easy for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you spend more time building innovative applications and less time managing clusters. To learn how to get started, see the Amazon MSK Developer Guide.