What is MSK Provisioned?
Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters offer a wide range of features and capabilities to help you optimize your cluster's performance and meet your streaming needs. The topics below describe the functionality in detail.
MSK Provisioned is an MSK cluster deployment option that allows you to manually configure and scale your Apache Kafka clusters. This provides you with varying levels of control over the infrastructure powering your Apache Kafka environment. With MSK Provisioned, you can choose the instance types, storage volumes (Standard brokers), and number of broker nodes that make up your Kafka clusters. You can also scale your cluster by adding or removing brokers as your data processing needs evolve. This flexibility enables you to optimize the clusters for your specific workload requirements, whether that's maximizing throughput, retention capacity, or other performance characteristics. In addition to the infrastructure configuration options, MSK Provisioned provides enterprise-grade security, monitoring, and operational benefits. This includes features such as Apache Kafka version upgrades, built-in security through encryption and access control, and integration with other AWS services such as Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring. MSK Provisioned offers two main broker types – Standard and Express.
For information about the MSK Provisioned API, see the Amazon MSK API Reference.
