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Confluent Cloud on Azure marketplace

Fully Managed Apache Kafka® on Azure

Focus on building apps and not managing clusters with a scalable, resilient & secure service built and operated by the original creators of Apache Kafka. Effortlessly connect to your existing data services to build real-time, event driven applications with managed connectors to Azure Blob Storage, Data Lake Gen 2, Microsoft SQL Server & more making Kafka a central event store.

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Why Confluent Cloud on Azure marketplace?

Access Confluent Cloud with Azure Active Directory for Single-Sign On and integrated Azure billing when you subscribe through the Azure Marketplace. Built and operated by the original creators of Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud provides a simple, scalable, resilient, and secure event streaming platform for the cloud-first enterprise, the DevOps-starved organization, or the agile developer on a mission.

  • Serverless

    Scale with cloud-native agility

    • Scale elastically between 0 - 100 MBps
    • No cluster sizing with self-serve provisioning
    • Pay only for what you actually stream
    • Start streaming in minutes
  • flexible

    Stream across hybrid clouds

    • Build a persistent bridge from on-premises to cloud with hybrid Kafka service
    • Stream across public clouds for multi-cloud data pipelines
  • reliable

    Run mission-critical apps

    • Guarantee 99.95% uptime SLA
    • Scale to 10s of GBps with dedicated capacity
    • Achieve sub 30 ms latency at scale
    • Enterprise-grade security & compliance
  • complete

    Do more with Apache Kafka

    • Ensure data compatibility with fully-managed Schema Registry
    • Real-time processing with fully-managed ksqlDB
    • Integrate all your systems quickly with Kafka connectors

Features and Pricing

Focus on app development with a complete event streaming service that includes fully managed Apache Kafka, Schema Registry, Connect & ksqlDB.

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Resources

Blog

Streaming Data with Microsoft Azure and Confluent

Read about the benefits of being able to access Confluent Cloud on the Azure marketplace and learn how you can get started.
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Documentation

Confluent Cloud Quick Start

Get up and running with Confluent Cloud after you sign up through the Azure Marketplace.
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Blog

Viewpoint Construction Software modernizes their data infrastructure with Confluent Cloud

Find out how Viewpoint leverages Confluent Cloud as the foundation of its next-generation architecture to build real-time applications and aggregate data from legacy applications.
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Case Study

Bosch Power Tools Streams IoT Data with Confluent Cloud

Learn how Bosch Power Tools built a novel, event-based software solution for lean construction site management with the latest Confluent Cloud features.
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Presentation

Introducing Events and Stream Processing into Nationwide Building Society

Deep dive into how Nationwide Building Society, a financial institution, is building a stream processing backbone that is being used to re-engineer the banking experience.
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White Paper

Best Practices for Developing Apache Kafka® Applications on Confluent Cloud

Access everything you need to know about Confluent Cloud - from topic management to monitoring and performance tuning.
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Podcast

Building Real-Time Data Pipelines with Microsoft Azure, Databricks, and Confluent

Angela Chu (Solution Architect, Databricks) and Caio Moreno (Senior Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft) explain how to integrate Azure, Databricks, and Confluent to build real-time data pipelines.
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Podcast

Change Data Capture and Kafka Connect on Microsoft Azure ft. Abhishek Gupta

Hear about what it's like being a Microsoft Azure Cloud advocate working with Apache Kafka and change data capture (CDC) solutions.
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Podcast

Apache Kafka on Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, and ZooKeeper with Lena Hall

Lena Hall joins Tim Berglund on Streaming Audio to talk about Apache Kafka, the various ways to run Kafka on Microsoft Azure, Kafka on Kubernetes, and exciting events that are happening in the Kafka world.
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Podcast

Connecting Azure Cosmos DB with Apache Kafka - Better Together ft. Ryan CrawCour

Ryan CrawCour (Engineer, Microsoft) explains how you can use a connector to feed events from your Kafka infrastructure into Azure Cosmos DB, as well as how to get changes from your database system back into their Kafka topics.
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