managing-amazon-msk
Amazon MSK
Overview
Domain expertise for operating Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters with Standard and Express broker types. Covers performance troubleshooting, consumer lag diagnosis, storage management, cluster sizing, client configuration, and CloudWatch monitoring.
Execute commands using available tools from the AWS MCP server when connected — it provides sandboxed execution, audit logging, and observability. When the MCP server is not available, fall back to the AWS CLI or shell as needed.
Standard brokers use customer-managed EBS volumes for storage. You choose instance types (kafka.m5/m7g families), provision EBS, and manage storage scaling.
Express brokers provide fully managed, pay-as-you-go storage with no EBS provisioning. They use instance types prefixed with express.m7g, offer up to 3x more throughput per broker, and have no maintenance windows.