Plan
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AWS Lambda Kafka ESM gains queue support via Kafka 4.2 share groups
- Platform/SRE — Plan: If you run self-managed Kafka clusters with Lambda ESM and need higher parallelism, evaluate upgrading to Kafka 4.2 (share groups) and enabling queue mode — it decouples consumer concurrency from partition count with no producer-side changes. No deadline; schedule as a platform improvement this quarter.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Learn: This GA capability lets Lambda consumers scale beyond partition count on self-managed Kafka, potentially reducing over-provisioning costs and the need for auxiliary queuing infrastructure — worth factoring into event-driven architecture standards.
- Signals: Kafka 4.2 supported · GA announcement
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