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Amazon MSK Serverless Now Available in São Paulo Region

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made Amazon MSK Serverless generally available in the South America (São Paulo) region, enabling customers to connect Apache Kafka applications without managing cluster capacity. MSK Serverless automatically provisions and scales compute and storage resources on demand, letting teams run Kafka with reduced operational overhead. This expansion aligns São Paulo with AWS's global GA regions.

Amazon MSK Adds Apache Kafka 4.1 with Queues Preview

📣 Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka 4.1, introducing Queues as a preview feature, a new Streams Rebalance Protocol in early access, and Eligible Leader Replicas (ELR) enabled by default. These features target improved parallelism, optimized Kafka Streams task rebalancing, and stronger availability. To adopt 4.1, select 4.1.x when creating a cluster or perform an in-place rolling update; MSK orchestrates broker restarts to maintain availability. Kafka 4.1 support is available today across all AWS regions where MSK is offered.