Reimagine What You Can Do With Kafka
Stop burning engineering cycles on manual sizing, scaling, and patching. Switch to the only serverless, cloud-native platform that cuts TCO by up to 70% and deploys in minutes.
Why Choose Confluent Cloud?
Moving from “cloud-hosted” to “cloud-native” simplifies operations, reduces risk and eliminates hidden costs.
| Topic | Amazon MSK | Confluent Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Scalability | Manual sizing and rebalancing; limited auto-scaling capabilities | Automated capacity management with instant cluster provisioning and scaling, as well as load balancing |
| Reliability | No SLAs for Kafka-related features | 99.99% SLA covering Kafka and infrastructure |
| Governance | Limited governance features and closed-source security with no extensibility beyond the ecosystem | Battle-tested and enterprise-grade security & governance tools ready out-of-the-box |
| Flexibility | Single CSP only with no hybrid of multi-cloud option | Highly available and consistent access to data across all of your environments, spanning all clouds & on-prem |
| Processing | Needs manual integration and multiple services for distributed stream processing | Natively integrated Flink allows for real-time stream processing of data in Kafka topics |
| Analytics | Needs manual integration and multiple services for landing data in open table formats | Native support for representing Kafka topics and its associated schemas as Iceberg and/or Delta tables in a few clicks |
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"We are in the business of selling and renting clothes... If we had to manage everything ourselves, I would’ve had to hire at least 10 more people to keep the systems up and running."
- Reduced administrative overhead by 10 FTEs
- Met crucial target launch date
"It’s amazing how much more we can get done when we don’t have to worry about exactly how to do things. We can trust Confluent to offer a secure and rock-solid Kafka platform with a myriad of value-add capabilities like security, connectors, and stream governance on top."
- Moving from Amazon MSK to Confluent Cloud enabled a 48.3% reduction in projected annual operating costs
- Estimated 80% reduction in day 2 operational burdens
"Before Confluent Cloud, when we had a broker outage, developers would have to stop their development work and focus on operations until the problem was sorted out, which in some cases took up to three days ... Confluent takes care of everything for us, so our developers can focus on building new features and applications that add value to the business."
- Eliminated 3-day outage resolution cycles, ensuring stable production operations
- Increased customer conversion rates by up to 30% through real-time hyper-personalization
Unlock More Value
Confluent delivers solutions for endless use cases across any industry or tech stack
Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Replication
Bridge on-premises and cloud environments seamlessly. Use Cluster Linking to mirror data across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and on-prem deployments for disaster recovery or global data availability.
Modernize Core Banking
Unlock legacy data by streaming it to modern cloud applications. Reduce mainframe MIPS costs and enable microservices to access core business data without impacting systems of record.
Customer 360 & Personalization
Unify data from clickstreams, transactions, and CRM systems in real time. Deliver hyper-personalized recommendations and next-best offers to increase conversion rates.
Real-Time Fraud Detection
Process high-throughput transaction streams with millisecond latency to detect and block threats instantly. Eliminate batch processing delays to protect revenue and customer trust.
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