--- title: Amazon MSK expands Express brokers to Africa (Cape Town)... description: Amazon MSK Express brokers are now available in two new AWS regions: Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Taipei). Express brokers offer up to 3x more... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-msk-expands-express-brokers-to-africa-cape-town-and-asia-pacific-taipei-regions-rwn7apfp5 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Amazon MSK expands Express brokers to Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Taipei) regions | daily.dev og:description: Amazon MSK Express brokers are now available in two new AWS regions: Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Taipei). Express brokers offer up to 3x more... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/amazon-msk-expands-express-brokers-to-africa-cape-town-and-asia-pacific-taipei-regions-rwn7apfp5 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RwN7aPFp5.png og:image:alt: Amazon MSK expands Express brokers to Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Taipei) regions og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Amazon MSK expands Express brokers to Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Taipei) regions **[AWS](https://daily.dev/sources/aws)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Amazon MSK Express brokers are now available in two new AWS regions: Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Taipei). Express brokers offer up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers. They come pre-configured with Kafka best practices, support all Kafka APIs, and require no changes to existing client applications. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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