# Replication patterns
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MSK Replicator supports several replication patterns depending on your use case. This section describes how to set up each pattern and how to perform failover and failback operations.

**Topics**
+ [Same-region replication](msk-replicator-same-region.md)
+ [Cross-region replication](msk-replicator-cross-region.md)
+ [Active-passive replication](msk-replicator-active-passive.md)
+ [Active-active replication](msk-replicator-active-active.md)
+ [Failover to the secondary AWS Region](msk-replicator-when-failover.md)
+ [Planned failover](msk-replicator-planned-failover.md)
+ [Unplanned failover](msk-replicator-unplanned-failover.md)
+ [Failback](msk-replicator-failback.md)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query msk` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).