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Confluent Cloud Is Your Life (K)Raft Away From Hosted Apache Kafka®
ZooKeeper is going away. Learn why hosted Kafka migrations are accelerating—and how Confluent Cloud simplifies your move with KRaft and KCP.
Current New Orleans: Unlock Real-Time Data Insights
At Current 2025 in New Orleans (Oct 29–30), developers, data engineers, operators, architects & tech execs unlock real-time data + AI insights.
Cut the Costs of Hosted Apache Kafka® With Confluent Cloud’s Price Guarantee
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.