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FULLY MANAGED | CONFLUENT CLOUD
Harness Real-Time Data, Lower Your Costs – Any Scale, Any Cloud
Confluent Cloud is the fully managed deployment of our data streaming platform. Its serverless Apache Kafka® engine powers the most efficient way to deploy and scale real-time data streams in the cloud. But streaming your data is just the start.
See how Confluent Cloud equips you to maximize Kafka cost savings, streamline security, and integrate hybrid deployments.
Cut Infrastructure Costs in Half With Autoscaling Clusters
Say goodbye to over-provisioned and underutilized Kafka clusters. Powered by Kora, our cloud-native Kafka engine, Confluent Cloud automatically scales to ensure your infrastructure is always right-sized for your workload. You no longer have to pay for capacity you don’t need, cutting your infrastructure spend in half.
Basic and Standard Clusters
Get started with no risk on Basic clusters or deploy production-ready use cases on Standard clusters to use infinite storage, audit logs for threat detection, and 20%+ throughput savings.
Enterprise Clusters
Choose Enterprise clusters to deploy mission-critical use cases and protect sensitive data with private networking, autoscaling at GBps+ scale, and 32%+ throughput savings.
Freight Clusters
Take advantage of Freight clusters to see up to 90% throughput savings for high-volume workloads like logging, observability and AI/ML data ingestion.
Multi-Region & Multicloud Clusters
Replicate, sync, and share data directly from one Confluent Cloud cluster to another with Cluster Linking—even if the clusters live in different regions, public clouds, or organizations.
Offload Apache Kafka® Ops for 60% Lower TCO and Faster Dev
Break past limits on your scalability, budget, and time and offload all your operations to Confluent Cloud with resilient, serverless data streaming available on all three major public clouds. With pay-as-you-go consumption and cost-efficient clusters for any workload, Confluent Cloud reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) for self-managed Kafka by up to 60%—giving your team the freedom and focus to deliver your best work.
Confluent Cloud’s flexible cluster options further maximizes the cost savings. Mix and match cluster types based on your use case’s unique requirements, all while ensuring availability of mission-critical workloads with our 99.99% uptime SLA.
Complete Capabilities for Enterprise Security & Modern Data Architecture
With the right combination of capabilities, a complete data streaming platform helps your entire organization migrate away from fragile, point-to-point integrations to gain secure, reliable, and real-time access to high quality data.
Ensure Regulatory Compliance With Robust Security Controls
Easily manage authentication, control access to cloud resources, encrypt data streams, and monitor & assess security risks. All security features—including RBAC, self-managed encryption keys, client-side field-level encryption, and audit logs—are built to meet your needs for data privacy regulations.
Easily Integrate Data Systems With Fully Managed Connectors
Don’t spend months designing, building, testing, and maintaining Kafka connectors—and even more time self-managing them. Easily integrate Confluent with sources and sinks like databases, data lakes, and data warehouses using 120+ pre-built and 80+ fully managed Kafka connectors.
Govern and Process at the Source for Downstream Data Reuse
With Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink® and Stream Governance, you can shift processing and governance left to prevent bad data and lower compute costs. Build analytics and AI-ready data products to share, discover, and reuse across teams and use cases.
Use Tableflow to Turn Data Streams Into Analytics Tables
In just a few clicks, Tableflow allows you to materialize Kafka topics and schemas as Apache Iceberg™ and Delta Lake tables. Feed the data lakes, data warehouses, and analytics engines that power your AI use cases with fresh, trustworthy, and enriched data, integrated with our partners’ catalogs.
Migration to Cloud-Native Kafka Has Never Been Easier
Unify Your Data Across Global, Hybrid Environments
Use the data streaming platform wherever your data lives—fully managed on 100+ regions across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, managed within your own cloud account via WarpStream, or self-managed in on-premises and private cloud environments with Confluent Platform.
And with Cluster Linking, you can integrate data across hybrid and multicloud deployments, over public and private networks, to provide a single global data plane where all your environments are connected. This enables unified monitoring and management and eliminates the need for complex point-to-point connections, allowing you to easily:
- Link Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud clusters
- Migrate data across Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud clusters
- Share data across clusters, regions, and clouds on Confluent Cloud
Cloud Product & Feature Deep Dives
Get a head start on your Kafka and Flink use cases. Create and activate your Confluent Cloud account today with $400 in free credits to use in your first 30 days.
Confluent Cloud
A fully managed, cloud-native service for Apache Kafka®
Confluent Cloud FAQs
What is Confluent Cloud?
Confluent Cloud is the industry's only fully managed data streaming platform. With Confluent Cloud, you can future-proof your data architecture and unlock data access, massive scalability, high data durability and availability, and stream processing and analytics use cases.
You can get started directly in the cloud console or take advantage of integrated billing with your cloud service provider by signing up in the AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure marketplace. After you sign up, use the Quick Start guide to get familiar with using the web UI or Confluent CLI to manage clusters and topics.
How is Confluent Cloud different from open source Kafka?
Apache Kafka® is a distributed streaming engine that powers high-throughput, fault tolerant, and highly scalable real-time data pipelines, stream processing, and event-driven data integration. In contrast, Confluent is a complete data streaming platform that goes beyond Kafka to offer enterprise-grade capabilities for securing, connecting, governing, and processing data streams with cloud-native autoscaling, enterprise-grade security, and pre-built and fully managed integrations.
As the fully managed deployment of our platform, Confluent Cloud is powered by a cloud-native Kafka service, fully rebuilt for seamless scalability and hybrid cloud integration. See a complete comparison of Confluent vs. Apache Kafka or learn more about Kora, our cloud-native Kafka engine.
What features does Confluent Cloud include?
Confluent Cloud includes:
- Fully managed Kafka clusters (Basic, Standard, Enterprise, Freight) that offer elastic scalability, infinite storage, guaranteed resiliency (with 99/99% uptime SLA for multi-AZ clusters, low latency, as well as Dedicated clusters for workloads that require pre-provisioned resources
- Data replication capabilities for data migration and disaster recovery with Confluent Replicator and Cluster Linking
- Enterprise-grade security features, including role based access control, encryption for data at rest and data in transit, audit logs, and private networking
- Metrics API for monitoring cluster performance, consumer lag, and other metrics
- Support for a wide range of client languages, including Java, Python, .NET, Go, Node.js, and CC++
- 120+ pre-built Kafka connectors and 90+ fully managed connectors, available on Confluent Hub
- Stream Governance, an advanced, fully managed suite of governance tooling, which includes Stream Lineage, Stream
- Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®, a serverless stream processing service that allows you to enrich, join, and filter data and integrate AI/ML models with AI Model Inference
How does Confluent Cloud pricing work?
Confluent Cloud’s pricing is determined by the features used (i.e., stream, connect, govern, and process capabilities), the selected tier, and the specific task & its rate per processing unit, throughput, or environment. Monthly bills are determined by consumption of resources within your cloud organization.
With Confluent Cloud, you can make annual commitments to minimum spend. With commitments, discounts scale with your usage across the entire Confluent Cloud stick,including clusters, connectors, Stream Governance, stream processing, and technical support.