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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.

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 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...

Turn legacy Oracle data into real-time AI insights using Kafka, Flink, and MongoDB. Learn how to stream, enrich, and personalize faster than batch ever could.

Confluent has introduced Private Network Interface (PNI) for AWS, a new secure networking option that helps save 50% on networking costs and has been successfully adopted by customers like Indeed. PNI is now available for Enterprise and Freight clusters.

Confluent Tableflow unifies operational and analytical data by integrating Kafka with zero ETL, leveraging open table formats such as Iceberg and Delta Lake. It offers advantages over traditional zero ETL by enabling data reuse, schema decoupling, and better scalability, streamlining data sharing.

Introducing NeuBird’s Hawkeye—a GenAI-powered SRE assistant purpose-built to streamline these operational demands. By intelligently ingesting telemetry, alert, and audit data from Confluent Cloud and automating diagnostic workflows, Hawkeye helps teams reduce MTTR and accelerate root cause analysis.