# Replication patterns
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MSK Replicator supports several replication patterns depending on your use case. This section describes how to set up each pattern and how to perform failover and failback operations.

**Topics**
+ [Same-region replication](msk-replicator-same-region.md)
+ [Cross-region replication](msk-replicator-cross-region.md)
+ [Active-passive replication](msk-replicator-active-passive.md)
+ [Active-active replication](msk-replicator-active-active.md)
+ [Failover to the secondary AWS Region](msk-replicator-when-failover.md)
+ [Planned failover](msk-replicator-planned-failover.md)
+ [Unplanned failover](msk-replicator-unplanned-failover.md)
+ [Failback](msk-replicator-failback.md)