Create an MSK Cluster

The following parameters are needed when following these steps to create a new MSK cluster.

Check your selected region

Make sure you have selected the desired region, such as US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1.

• Name
• VPC
• Subnets

Create a VPC

If you haven't already created a VPC, go to the Create VPC page to create a VPC and more for your MSK cluster with the following parameters.

• Name tag auto-generation: my-msk-cluster
• IPv4 CIDR block: 10.0.0.0/16
• Number of Availability Zones: 3

Create the MSK Cluster

Start the Create MSK cluster wizard.

Step 1: Cluster Settings

• Creation method: Custom create
• Cluster name: my-msk-cluster
• Cluster type: Provisioned
• Specify your desired settings

For a small evaluation MSK use these settings

Broker: kafka.t3.small
Storage: 10 GiB

Step 2: Networking

• VPC: my-msk-cluster-vpc
• For each of the 3 Zones
  • Subnet: my-msk-cluster-subnet-public*

Step 3: Security Settings

• Access control methods:

  • SASL/SCRAM authentication

  -- or --

  • For mTLS
    • TLS client authentication (ACM)
    • ACM Private CAs: Mutual Authentication CA

  -- or --

  • Unauthenticated access

• Encryption

  • Between clients and brokers: TLS Encryption

Step 4: Monitoring and tags

• Specify your desired settings

Step 5: Review and create

Check to make sure all of the settings are correct and click Create Cluster.