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Confluent Cloud is introducing TLS 1.3 for stronger security. It’s available now as an opt-in feature for Dedicated clusters. On April 30, 2026, TLS 1.3 will be enabled by default for all remaining cluster types. Confluent will continue to support TLS 1.2.

Learn how to build real-time dashboards with Apache Kafka® that help your organization go beyond simple data visualization and analysis paralysis to instant analysis and action.

Build real-time apps in minutes. Confluent Cloud on AWS Marketplace offers fully managed Kafka with Flink, Iceberg, 120+ connectors, and enterprise-grade governance—so your team spends less time on ops and more on innovation.

Confluent achieves FedRAMP Ready status for its Confluent Cloud for Government offering, marking an essential milestone in providing secure data streaming services to government agencies, and showing a commitment to rigorous security standards. This certification marks a key step towards full...

Announcing the release of Apache Kafka 4.1

This blog post outlines the top four challenges of using hyperscaler-hosted Kafka, focusing on high costs, manual maintenance, reliability gaps, and vendor lock-in. It then explains how Confluent Cloud is architected to solve each of these specific problems for customers.

Learn about Vineet’s experience and growth at Confluent and how his team and environment have set him up for success.

Learn how to use webhooks to integrate your Microsoft Teams tenant with Confluent Cloud and receive service event notifications directly in your inbox or team channels.

Protect sensitive data with Data Contracts using Confluent Schema Registry.

Build event-driven agents on Apache Flink® with Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud—fresh context, MCP tool calling, real-time embeddings, and enterprise governance.

Confluent Cloud’s Q3 launch delivers cost-effective streaming with new features like Private Network Interface (PNI) for lower networking costs, boosted client connection limits, Streaming Agents for real-time agentic AI, expanded Tableflow functionality with upserts, Cluster Linking on Google Cl...

Confluent has enhanced its fully managed connectors with new features like exposed connector logs for non-admins, plugin versioning, expanded SMT support, custom topic naming for DLQ and error topics, and specific connector updates. These improvements offer better control, data guarantees, user...

Stream to ClickHouse with ease. Our new fully managed sink connector on Confluent Cloud is now GA—zero ops, auto scaling, and built-in security.

Mitigate risk and fuel business growth by embedding Confluent's leading enterprise-grade data streaming platform, with tools and capabilities that complement Apache Kafka®, to make your data streaming easy and reliable.

Our latest blog reveals why real-time data is critical for AI success and...