# Create topics in an Amazon MSK cluster
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You can create topics in your MSK Provisioned cluster using this API directly without setting up any custom Kafka AdminClient. When creating a topic, you specify the topic name, partition count, replication factor, and optionally topic configurations.

**Topics**
+ [Create topics using the AWS Management Console](create-topic-console.md)
+ [Create a topic using the AWS CLI](create-topic-cli.md)
+ [Create a topic using the API](create-topic-api.md)