Amazon MSK: How it works

An Amazon MSK cluster is the primary Amazon MSK resource that you can create in your account. The topics in this section describe how to perform common Amazon MSK operations. For a list of all the operations that you can perform on an MSK cluster, see the following:

• The AWS Management Console

• The Amazon MSK API Reference

• The Amazon MSK CLI Command Reference

Topics

• Creating an Amazon MSK cluster
• Deleting an Amazon MSK cluster
• Getting the Apache ZooKeeper connection string for an Amazon MSK cluster
• Getting the bootstrap brokers for an Amazon MSK cluster
• Listing Amazon MSK clusters
• Storage management
• Updating the broker type
• Updating the configuration of an Amazon MSK cluster
• Expanding an Amazon MSK cluster
• Updating security settings of a cluster
• Rebooting a broker for an Amazon MSK cluster
• Impact of broker restarts during patching and other maintenance
• Tagging an Amazon MSK cluster
• Accessing Amazon EventBridge Pipes through the Amazon MSK console