Amazon MSK announces support for Standard brokers Graviton-3 instance in Africa (Cape Town) region

You can now create provisioned [Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)](https://aws.amazon.com/msk/) clusters with Standard brokers running on AWS Graviton3-based M7g instances in Africa (Cape Town) region. Graviton M7g instances for Standard brokers deliver up to 24% compute cost savings and up to 29% higher write and read throughput over comparable MSK clusters running on M5 instances. To get started, create a new cluster with M7g brokers or upgrade your M5 cluster to M7g through the Amazon MSK console or the Amazon CLI and read our [Amazon MSK Developer Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/msk/latest/developerguide/what-is-msk.html) for more information.