diff --git a/daprdocs/content/en/reference/components-reference/supported-pubsub/setup-apache-kafka.md b/daprdocs/content/en/reference/components-reference/supported-pubsub/setup-apache-kafka.md
index 0280093642b..f5dc7faa568 100644
--- a/daprdocs/content/en/reference/components-reference/supported-pubsub/setup-apache-kafka.md
+++ b/daprdocs/content/en/reference/components-reference/supported-pubsub/setup-apache-kafka.md
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ spec:
 | consumerID       | N | Consumer ID (consumer tag) organizes one or more consumers into a group. Consumers with the same consumer ID work as one virtual consumer; for example, a message is processed only once by one of the consumers in the group. If the `consumerID` is not provided, the Dapr runtime set it to the Dapr application ID (`appID`) value. If a value for `consumerGroup` is provided, any value for `consumerID` is ignored - a combination of the consumer group and a random unique identifier will be set for the `consumerID` instead. | `"channel1"`
 | clientID            | N | A user-provided string sent with every request to the Kafka brokers for logging, debugging, and auditing purposes. Defaults to `"namespace.appID"` for Kubernetes mode or `"appID"` for Self-Hosted mode. | `"my-namespace.my-dapr-app"`, `"my-dapr-app"`
 | authRequired        | N | *Deprecated* Enable [SASL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Authentication_and_Security_Layer) authentication with the Kafka brokers. | `"true"`, `"false"`
-| authType            | Y | Configure or disable authentication. Supported values: `none`, `password`, `mtls`, or `oidc` | `"password"`, `"none"`
+| authType            | Y | Configure or disable authentication. Supported values: `none`, `password`, `mtls`, `oidc` or `awsiam` | `"password"`, `"none"`
 | saslUsername        | N | The SASL username used for authentication. Only required if `authType` is set to `"password"`. | `"adminuser"`
 | saslPassword        | N | The SASL password used for authentication. Can be `secretKeyRef` to use a [secret reference]({{< ref component-secrets.md >}}). Only required if `authType is set to `"password"`. | `""`, `"KeFg23!"`
 | saslMechanism      | N | The SASL Authentication Mechanism you wish to use. Only required if `authType` is set to `"password"`. Defaults to `PLAINTEXT` | `"SHA-512", "SHA-256", "PLAINTEXT"`
@@ -92,6 +92,12 @@ spec:
 | oidcClientSecret | N | The OAuth2 client secret that has been provisioned in the identity provider: Required when `authType` is set to `oidc` | `"KeFg23!"` |
 | oidcScopes | N | Comma-delimited list of OAuth2/OIDC scopes to request with the access token. Recommended when `authType` is set to `oidc`. Defaults to `"openid"` | `"openid,kafka-prod"` |
 | oidcExtensions | N | Input/Output | String containing a JSON-encoded dictionary of OAuth2/OIDC extensions to request with the access token | `{"cluster":"kafka","poolid":"kafkapool"}` |
+| awsRegion | N | The AWS region where the Kafka cluster is deployed to. Required when `authType` is set to `awsiam` | `us-west-1` |
+| awsAccessKey | N  | AWS access key associated with an IAM account. | `"accessKey"`
+| awsSecretKey | N  | The secret key associated with the access key. | `"secretKey"`
+| awsSessionToken | N  | AWS session token to use. A session token is only required if you are using temporary security credentials. | `"sessionToken"`
+| awsIamRoleArn | N  | IAM role that has access to AWS Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK). This is another option to authenticate with MSK aside from the AWS Credentials. | `"arn:aws:iam::123456789:role/mskRole"`
+| awsStsSessionName | N  | Represents the session name for assuming a role. | `"MSKSASLDefaultSession"`
 | schemaRegistryURL | N | Required when using Schema Registry Avro serialization/deserialization. The Schema Registry URL. | `http://localhost:8081` |
 | schemaRegistryAPIKey | N | When using Schema Registry Avro serialization/deserialization. The Schema Registry credentials API Key. | `XYAXXAZ` |
 | schemaRegistryAPISecret | N | When using Schema Registry Avro serialization/deserialization. The Schema Registry credentials API Secret. | `ABCDEFGMEADFF` |
@@ -107,7 +113,17 @@ The metadata `version` must be set to `1.0.0` when using Azure EventHubs with Ka
 
 Kafka supports a variety of authentication schemes and Dapr supports several: SASL password, mTLS, OIDC/OAuth2. With the added authentication methods, the `authRequired` field has
 been deprecated from the v1.6 release and instead the `authType` field should be used. If `authRequired` is set to `true`, Dapr will attempt to configure `authType` correctly
-based on the value of `saslPassword`. There are four valid values for `authType`: `none`, `password`, `certificate`, `mtls`, and `oidc`. Note this is authentication only; authorization is still configured within Kafka.
+based on the value of `saslPassword`. The valid values for `authType` are: 
+- `none`
+- `password`
+- `certificate`
+- `mtls`
+- `oidc` 
+- `awsiam`
+
+{{% alert title="Note" color="primary" %}}
+`authType` is _authentication_ only. _Authorization_ is still configured within Kafka, except for `awsiam`, which can also drive authorization decisions configured in AWS IAM.
+{{% /alert %}}
 
 #### None
 
@@ -276,6 +292,44 @@ spec:
     value: 0.10.2.0
 ```
 
+#### AWS IAM
+
+Authenticating with AWS IAM is supported with MSK. Setting `authType` to `awsiam` uses AWS SDK to generate auth tokens to authenticate.
+{{% alert title="Note" color="primary" %}}
+The only required metadata field is `awsRegion`. If no `awsAccessKey` and `awsSecretKey` are provided, you can use AWS IAM roles for service accounts to have password-less authentication to your Kafka cluster.
+{{% /alert %}}
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: dapr.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Component
+metadata:
+  name: kafka-pubsub-awsiam
+spec:
+  type: pubsub.kafka
+  version: v1
+  metadata:
+  - name: brokers # Required. Kafka broker connection setting
+    value: "dapr-kafka.myapp.svc.cluster.local:9092"
+  - name: consumerGroup # Optional. Used for input bindings.
+    value: "group1"
+  - name: clientID # Optional. Used as client tracing ID by Kafka brokers.
+    value: "my-dapr-app-id"
+  - name: authType # Required.
+    value: "awsiam"
+  - name: awsRegion # Required.
+    value: "us-west-1"
+  - name: awsAccessKey # Optional.
+    value: <AWS_ACCESS_KEY>
+  - name: awsSecretKey # Optional.
+    value: <AWS_SECRET_KEY>
+  - name: awsSessionToken # Optional.
+    value: <AWS_SESSION_KEY>
+  - name: awsIamRoleArn # Optional.
+    value: "arn:aws:iam::123456789:role/mskRole"
+  - name: awsStsSessionName # Optional.
+    value: "MSKSASLDefaultSession"
+```
+
 ### Communication using TLS
 
 By default TLS is enabled to secure the transport layer to Kafka. To disable TLS, set `disableTls` to `true`. When TLS is enabled, you can