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Cloud Changelog
Amazon MSK changelog
60 announcements since January 2025 · 8 GA · 6 Region expansions
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October 20265
TLS 1.3 supported on Provisioned clusters through named security policies, at no additional costGA
Collect Amazon MSK Kafka exporter and consumer-group lag metrics
Connector plugins and worker configurations can be updated in place, keeping committed offsets
Connectors can be paused and resumed in place, keeping configuration and committed offsets
September 20261
August 20265
Restart newly created connectors and all or only failed tasks
Adds OAuth 2.0 (SASL/OAUTHBEARER) authentication for replication from external Kafka clusters
Custom domain names set once at cluster level, on ZooKeeper or KRaft
In-place migration from ZooKeeper to KRaft on existing clusters, which stay available throughoutGA
July 20264
Delivers Kafka data to S3 general purpose buckets at up to 10 GB/sGA
Materializes Kafka topics as Iceberg tables on S3 Tables at up to 10 GB/sGA
Supports Apache Kafka 4.2 with new consumer and Streams rebalance protocols
Replicates from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Standard brokers, using SASL/SCRAM or mTLS
June 20264
April 20265
Adds 13 AWS Regions across Asia Pacific, Europe, Israel and MexicoRegion
Enhanced consumer offset synchronization for bidirectional replication between Kafka clustersGA
Replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Express brokersGA
Replicator logs with error guidance, deliverable to CloudWatch, S3 or Data FirehoseGA
Available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Spain) and Europe (Zurich)Region