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Amazon MSK Replicator now supports replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Standard brokers

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AWS·7 days ago · Jul 9, 2026, 03:00 PMFeatureAI-assisted summary

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MSK Replicator now supports replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to Amazon MSK Standard brokers (previously limited to MSK Express).
Adds SASL/SCRAM and mutual TLS authentication, retains original topic names, synchronizes consumer group offsets bidirectionally, and avoids infinite loops.
Enables migration, disaster‑recovery, and multi‑cloud/hybrid data distribution across all regions where Replicator is available.

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