diff --git a/kafka/conn.py b/kafka/conn.py
index cac354875..87e10121c 100644
--- a/kafka/conn.py
+++ b/kafka/conn.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import kafka.errors as Errors
 from kafka.future import Future
 from kafka.metrics.stats import Avg, Count, Max, Rate
+from kafka.msk import AwsMskIamClient
 from kafka.oauth.abstract import AbstractTokenProvider
 from kafka.protocol.admin import SaslHandShakeRequest, DescribeAclsRequest_v2, DescribeClientQuotasRequest
 from kafka.protocol.commit import OffsetFetchRequest
@@ -83,6 +84,12 @@ class SSLWantWriteError(Exception):
     gssapi = None
     GSSError = None
 
+# needed for AWS_MSK_IAM authentication:
+try:
+    from botocore.session import Session as BotoSession
+except ImportError:
+    # no botocore available, will disable AWS_MSK_IAM mechanism
+    BotoSession = None
 
 AFI_NAMES = {
     socket.AF_UNSPEC: "unspecified",
@@ -227,7 +234,7 @@ class BrokerConnection(object):
         'sasl_oauth_token_provider': None
     }
     SECURITY_PROTOCOLS = ('PLAINTEXT', 'SSL', 'SASL_PLAINTEXT', 'SASL_SSL')
-    SASL_MECHANISMS = ('PLAIN', 'GSSAPI', 'OAUTHBEARER', "SCRAM-SHA-256", "SCRAM-SHA-512")
+    SASL_MECHANISMS = ('PLAIN', 'GSSAPI', 'OAUTHBEARER', "SCRAM-SHA-256", "SCRAM-SHA-512", 'AWS_MSK_IAM')
 
     def __init__(self, host, port, afi, **configs):
         self.host = host
@@ -276,6 +283,9 @@ def __init__(self, host, port, afi, **configs):
                 token_provider = self.config['sasl_oauth_token_provider']
                 assert token_provider is not None, 'sasl_oauth_token_provider required for OAUTHBEARER sasl'
                 assert callable(getattr(token_provider, "token", None)), 'sasl_oauth_token_provider must implement method #token()'
+            if self.config['sasl_mechanism'] == 'AWS_MSK_IAM':
+                assert BotoSession is not None, 'AWS_MSK_IAM requires the "botocore" package'
+                assert self.config['security_protocol'] == 'SASL_SSL', 'AWS_MSK_IAM requires SASL_SSL'
         # This is not a general lock / this class is not generally thread-safe yet
         # However, to avoid pushing responsibility for maintaining
         # per-connection locks to the upstream client, we will use this lock to
@@ -561,6 +571,8 @@ def _handle_sasl_handshake_response(self, future, response):
             return self._try_authenticate_oauth(future)
         elif self.config['sasl_mechanism'].startswith("SCRAM-SHA-"):
             return self._try_authenticate_scram(future)
+        elif self.config['sasl_mechanism'] == 'AWS_MSK_IAM':
+            return self._try_authenticate_aws_msk_iam(future)
         else:
             return future.failure(
                 Errors.UnsupportedSaslMechanismError(
@@ -660,6 +672,44 @@ def _try_authenticate_plain(self, future):
 
         log.info('%s: Authenticated as %s via PLAIN', self, self.config['sasl_plain_username'])
         return future.success(True)
+    
+    def _try_authenticate_aws_msk_iam(self, future):
+        session = BotoSession()
+        credentials = session.get_credentials().get_frozen_credentials()
+        client = AwsMskIamClient(
+            host=self.host,
+            access_key=credentials.access_key,
+            secret_key=credentials.secret_key,
+            region=session.get_config_variable('region'),
+            token=credentials.token,
+        )
+
+        msg = client.first_message()
+        size = Int32.encode(len(msg))
+
+        err = None
+        close = False
+        with self._lock:
+            if not self._can_send_recv():
+                err = Errors.NodeNotReadyError(str(self))
+                close = False
+            else:
+                try:
+                    self._send_bytes_blocking(size + msg)
+                    data = self._recv_bytes_blocking(4)
+                    data = self._recv_bytes_blocking(struct.unpack('4B', data)[-1])
+                except (ConnectionError, TimeoutError) as e:
+                    log.exception("%s: Error receiving reply from server", self)
+                    err = Errors.KafkaConnectionError("%s: %s" % (self, e))
+                    close = True
+
+        if err is not None:
+            if close:
+                self.close(error=err)
+            return future.failure(err)
+
+        log.info('%s: Authenticated via AWS_MSK_IAM %s', self, data.decode('utf-8'))
+        return future.success(True)
 
     def _try_authenticate_scram(self, future):
         if self.config['security_protocol'] == 'SASL_PLAINTEXT':
diff --git a/kafka/msk.py b/kafka/msk.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..693560d14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kafka/msk.py
@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+import datetime
+import hashlib
+import hmac
+import json
+import string
+
+from kafka.vendor.six.moves import urllib
+
+
+class AwsMskIamClient:
+    UNRESERVED_CHARS = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + '-._~'
+
+    def __init__(self, host, access_key, secret_key, region, token=None):
+        """
+        Arguments:
+            host (str): The hostname of the broker.
+            access_key (str): An AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID.
+            secret_key (str): An AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.
+            region (str): An AWS_REGION.
+            token (Optional[str]): An AWS_SESSION_TOKEN if using temporary
+                credentials.
+        """
+        self.algorithm = 'AWS4-HMAC-SHA256'
+        self.expires = '900'
+        self.hashfunc = hashlib.sha256
+        self.headers = [
+            ('host', host)
+        ]
+        self.version = '2020_10_22'
+
+        self.service = 'kafka-cluster'
+        self.action = '{}:Connect'.format(self.service)
+
+        now = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
+        self.datestamp = now.strftime('%Y%m%d')
+        self.timestamp = now.strftime('%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ')
+
+        self.host = host
+        self.access_key = access_key
+        self.secret_key = secret_key
+        self.region = region
+        self.token = token
+
+    @property
+    def _credential(self):
+        return '{0.access_key}/{0._scope}'.format(self)
+
+    @property
+    def _scope(self):
+        return '{0.datestamp}/{0.region}/{0.service}/aws4_request'.format(self)
+
+    @property
+    def _signed_headers(self):
+        """
+        Returns (str):
+            An alphabetically sorted, semicolon-delimited list of lowercase
+            request header names.
+        """
+        return ';'.join(sorted(k.lower() for k, _ in self.headers))
+
+    @property
+    def _canonical_headers(self):
+        """
+        Returns (str):
+            A newline-delited list of header names and values.
+            Header names are lowercased.
+        """
+        return '\n'.join(map(':'.join, self.headers)) + '\n'
+
+    @property
+    def _canonical_request(self):
+        """
+        Returns (str):
+            An AWS Signature Version 4 canonical request in the format:
+                <Method>\n
+                <Path>\n
+                <CanonicalQueryString>\n
+                <CanonicalHeaders>\n
+                <SignedHeaders>\n
+                <HashedPayload>
+        """
+        # The hashed_payload is always an empty string for MSK.
+        hashed_payload = self.hashfunc(b'').hexdigest()
+        return '\n'.join((
+            'GET',
+            '/',
+            self._canonical_querystring,
+            self._canonical_headers,
+            self._signed_headers,
+            hashed_payload,
+        ))
+
+    @property
+    def _canonical_querystring(self):
+        """
+        Returns (str):
+            A '&'-separated list of URI-encoded key/value pairs.
+        """
+        params = []
+        params.append(('Action', self.action))
+        params.append(('X-Amz-Algorithm', self.algorithm))
+        params.append(('X-Amz-Credential', self._credential))
+        params.append(('X-Amz-Date', self.timestamp))
+        params.append(('X-Amz-Expires', self.expires))
+        if self.token:
+            params.append(('X-Amz-Security-Token', self.token))
+        params.append(('X-Amz-SignedHeaders', self._signed_headers))
+
+        return '&'.join(self._uriencode(k) + '=' + self._uriencode(v) for k, v in params)
+
+    @property
+    def _signing_key(self):
+        """
+        Returns (bytes):
+            An AWS Signature V4 signing key generated from the secret_key, date,
+            region, service, and request type.
+        """
+        key = self._hmac(('AWS4' + self.secret_key).encode('utf-8'), self.datestamp)
+        key = self._hmac(key, self.region)
+        key = self._hmac(key, self.service)
+        key = self._hmac(key, 'aws4_request')
+        return key
+
+    @property
+    def _signing_str(self):
+        """
+        Returns (str):
+            A string used to sign the AWS Signature V4 payload in the format:
+                <Algorithm>\n
+                <Timestamp>\n
+                <Scope>\n
+                <CanonicalRequestHash>
+        """
+        canonical_request_hash = self.hashfunc(self._canonical_request.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
+        return '\n'.join((self.algorithm, self.timestamp, self._scope, canonical_request_hash))
+
+    def _uriencode(self, msg):
+        """
+        Arguments:
+            msg (str): A string to URI-encode.
+        Returns (str):
+            The URI-encoded version of the provided msg, following the encoding
+            rules specified: https://github.com/aws/aws-msk-iam-auth#uriencode
+        """
+        return urllib.parse.quote(msg, safe=self.UNRESERVED_CHARS)
+
+    def _hmac(self, key, msg):
+        """
+        Arguments:
+            key (bytes): A key to use for the HMAC digest.
+            msg (str): A value to include in the HMAC digest.
+        Returns (bytes):
+            An HMAC digest of the given key and msg.
+        """
+        return hmac.new(key, msg.encode('utf-8'), digestmod=self.hashfunc).digest()
+
+    def first_message(self):
+        """
+        Returns (bytes):
+            An encoded JSON authentication payload that can be sent to the
+            broker.
+        """
+        signature = hmac.new(
+            self._signing_key,
+            self._signing_str.encode('utf-8'),
+            digestmod=self.hashfunc,
+        ).hexdigest()
+        msg = {
+            'version':  self.version,
+            'host': self.host,
+            'user-agent': 'kafka-python',
+            'action': self.action,
+            'x-amz-algorithm': self.algorithm,
+            'x-amz-credential': self._credential,
+            'x-amz-date': self.timestamp,
+            'x-amz-signedheaders': self._signed_headers,
+            'x-amz-expires': self.expires,
+            'x-amz-signature': signature,
+        }
+        if self.token:
+            msg['x-amz-security-token'] = self.token
+
+        return json.dumps(msg, separators=(',', ':')).encode('utf-8')
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diff --git a/test/test_msk.py b/test/test_msk.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..55ff853ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_msk.py
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+mport datetime
+import json
+
+from kafka.msk import AwsMskIamClient
+
+try:
+    from unittest import mock
+except ImportError:
+    import mock
+
+
+def client_factory(token=None):
+    now = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1629321911)
+    with mock.patch('kafka.msk.datetime') as mock_dt:
+        mock_dt.datetime.utcnow = mock.Mock(return_value=now)
+        return AwsMskIamClient(
+            host='localhost',
+            access_key='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
+            secret_key='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
+            region='us-east-1',
+            token=token,
+        )
+
+
+def test_aws_msk_iam_client_permanent_credentials():
+    client = client_factory(token=None)
+    msg = client.first_message()
+    assert msg
+    assert isinstance(msg, bytes)
+    actual = json.loads(msg)
+
+    expected = {
+        'version': '2020_10_22',
+        'host': 'localhost',
+        'user-agent': 'kafka-python',
+        'action': 'kafka-cluster:Connect',
+        'x-amz-algorithm': 'AWS4-HMAC-SHA256',
+        'x-amz-credential': 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/20210818/us-east-1/kafka-cluster/aws4_request',
+        'x-amz-date': '20210818T212511Z',
+        'x-amz-signedheaders': 'host',
+        'x-amz-expires': '900',
+        'x-amz-signature': '0fa42ae3d5693777942a7a4028b564f0b372bafa2f71c1a19ad60680e6cb994b',
+    }
+    assert actual == expected
+
+
+def test_aws_msk_iam_client_temporary_credentials():
+    client = client_factory(token='XXXXX')
+    msg = client.first_message()
+    assert msg
+    assert isinstance(msg, bytes)
+    actual = json.loads(msg)
+
+    expected = {
+        'version': '2020_10_22',
+        'host': 'localhost',
+        'user-agent': 'kafka-python',
+        'action': 'kafka-cluster:Connect',
+        'x-amz-algorithm': 'AWS4-HMAC-SHA256',
+        'x-amz-credential': 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/20210818/us-east-1/kafka-cluster/aws4_request',
+        'x-amz-date': '20210818T212511Z',
+        'x-amz-signedheaders': 'host',
+        'x-amz-expires': '900',
+        'x-amz-signature': 'b0619c50b7ecb4a7f6f92bd5f733770df5710e97b25146f97015c0b1db783b05',
+        'x-amz-security-token': 'XXXXX',
+    }
+    assert actual == expected
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