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Amazon MSK Connect now supports restarting connectors

Amazon MSK Connect now supports restarting newly created connectors and their tasks, enabling fast recovery for streaming data pipelines

Amazon MSK Connect supports restarting newly created connectors and their tasks, enabling quick recovery of streaming data pipelines. As a fully managed service, it deploys, monitors, and scales Apache Kafka Connect connectors. Previously, recovery required deleting and recreating connectors, causing downtime and operational overhead. This feature allows selective restart of connectors with all tasks or just failed tasks, ensuring seamless recovery. It can also restart connectors without failed tasks to reflect changes in external systems or dependencies. The restart capability is available across all AWS regions via the Amazon MSK console, AWS CLI, AWS SDK, and AWS CDK at no additional cost.

Why it matters

This update is useful for developers and deployment managers who manage Apache Kafka Connect connectors. It makes recovery from failures easier and reduces operational burden.

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