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description: Shared content, otelcol Kafka SASL AWS_MSK authentication
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The `aws_msk` block configures extra parameters for SASL authentication when using the `AWS_MSK_IAM_OAUTHBEARER` mechanisms.

The following arguments are supported:

| Name          | Type     | Description                                   | Default | Required |
| ------------- | -------- | --------------------------------------------- | ------- | -------- |
| `region`      | `string` | AWS region the MSK cluster is based in.       |         | yes      |
