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AWS msk: Restructured MSK Data Delivery documentation

Service: msk · 2026-08-19 · Documentation medium

File: msk/latest/developerguide/msk-data-delivery-first-channel.md · Type: iam

Summary

Rewrote content to describe two MSK Data Delivery capabilities and removed step-by-step channel creation guide.

Security assessment

Removed explicit IAM permission setup step without replacement, reducing visibility into required security configurations.

Evidence

  2. Create the IAM service role with the required permissions and trust policy (see [IAM permissions for Channel](./msk-data-delivery-iam.html)).

Diff

diff --git a/msk/latest/developerguide/msk-data-delivery-first-channel.md b/msk/latest/developerguide/msk-data-delivery-first-channel.md
index 4fc4c21f8..61b71a0b5 100644
--- a//msk/latest/developerguide/msk-data-delivery-first-channel.md
+++ b//msk/latest/developerguide/msk-data-delivery-first-channel.md
@@ -1 +1 @@
-[View a markdown version of this page](msk-data-delivery-first-channel.md)
+[View a markdown version of this page](msk-data-delivery.md)
@@ -3 +3 @@
-[](/pdfs/msk/latest/developerguide/MSKDevGuide.pdf#msk-data-delivery-first-channel "Open PDF")
+[](/pdfs/msk/latest/developerguide/MSKDevGuide.pdf#msk-data-delivery "Open PDF")
@@ -7 +7 @@
-# Create your first Channel
+# Amazon MSK Data Delivery
@@ -9 +9 @@
-  1. Create the destination (S3 Table bucket or general-purpose S3 bucket) and the DLQ S3 bucket. For Iceberg, also register your JSON schema in AWS Glue Schema Registry.
+With Amazon MSK data delivery, you can deliver Apache Kafka data from Amazon MSK Express brokers directly to Amazon S3, without connectors or additional infrastructure to manage. Amazon MSK Express automatically handles scaling, retries, and backpressure, and manages routine operations such as capacity scaling and version upgrades without introducing delivery gaps. Because these are native broker capabilities, they add no broker egress throughput, so you avoid the incremental infrastructure costs that scaling connector-based pipelines typically incurs and match capacity to actual workload demand rather than provisioning for peak. Each capability supports throughput of up to 10 GBps.
@@ -11 +11 @@
-  2. Create the IAM service role with the required permissions and trust policy (see [IAM permissions for Channel](./msk-data-delivery-iam.html)).
+The two capabilities are:
@@ -13 +13 @@
-  3. In the Amazon MSK console, open your Express cluster, choose the **Channel** tab, and choose **Create Channel** (see [Manage Channels](./msk-data-delivery-manage.html) for full steps).
+  * **Data delivery to streaming tables for Apache Iceberg** — With Amazon MSK Data Delivery, you can continuously materialize Apache Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3 Tables. Intelligent inline compaction eliminates the performance impact of small files and keeps query performance predictable without sacrificing data freshness. Built-in coordination resolves concurrent writer conflicts across high-throughput consumers. Amazon S3 Tables automatically handles ongoing table maintenance, including compaction, snapshot expiration, and unreferenced file cleanup.
@@ -15 +15 @@
-  4. Wait for the Channel to transition from **Creating** to **Active**.
+  * **Data delivery to Amazon S3 general purpose buckets** — With Amazon MSK Data Delivery, you can deliver Apache Kafka data in the source format to Amazon S3 general purpose buckets for downstream processing, with end-to-end reliability for mission-critical workloads. Use it to land Kafka data in Amazon S3 for use cases such as log archival, compliance retention, Kafka replay, and training AI/ML models. This approach removes the need to build self-managed connector pipelines that grow costly and operationally complex as workloads scale.
@@ -17 +17,8 @@
-  5. Produce records to the topic and verify delivery (query the Iceberg table in Athena or Spark, or inspect objects in the S3 bucket).
+
+
+
+###### Topics
+
+  * [data delivery for streaming tables to Apache Iceberg](./msk-data-delivery-iceberg.html)
+
+  * [data delivery to Amazon S3 general purpose buckets](./msk-data-delivery-s3.html)
@@ -28 +35 @@ To use the Amazon Web Services Documentation, Javascript must be enabled. Please
-Prerequisites
+Troubleshooting
@@ -30 +37 @@ Prerequisites
-IAM permissions
+data delivery for streaming tables to Apache Iceberg