Amazon MSK expands Express brokers to Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Taipei) regions

You can now create provisioned [Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)](https://aws.amazon.com/msk/) clusters with Express brokers in Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Taipei) regions. Express brokers are a new broker type for Amazon MSK Provisioned designed to deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% as compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers. Express brokers come pre-configured with Kafka best practices by default, support all Kafka APIs, and provide the same low-latency performance that Amazon MSK customers expect, so they can continue using existing client applications without any changes. To get started, create a new cluster with Express brokers 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.