# Best practices for Standard and Express brokers
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This section describes best practices to follow for Standard brokers and Express brokers. For information about Amazon MSK Replicator best practices, see [Best practices](msk-replicator-best-practices.md).

**Topics**
+ [Best practices for Standard brokers](bestpractices.md)
+ [Best practices for Express brokers](bestpractices-express.md)
+ [Best practices for Apache Kafka clients](bestpractices-kafka-client.md)