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Data Products, Data Contracts, and Change Data Capture
Change data capture is a popular method to connect database tables to data streams, but it comes with drawbacks. The next evolution of the CDC pattern, first-class data products, provide resilient pipelines that support both real-time and batch processing while isolating upstream systems...
Unlock Cost Savings with Freight Clusters–Now in General Availability
Confluent Cloud Freight clusters are now Generally Available on AWS. In this blog, learn how Freight clusters can save you up to 90% at GBps+ scale.
Unleash Real-Time Agentic AI: Introducing Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud
Build event-driven agents on Apache Flink® with Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud—fresh context, MCP tool calling, real-time embeddings, and enterprise governance.
No More Swamps: Building a Better-Governed Data Lake Architecture
Powering analytics and AI requires reliable, consistent, and easily discoverable data to reach the data lake. To enforce these needs, strong and holistic governance is an important of building better platforms for getting from raw data to valuable insights and actions.
Strengthen Security With TLS 1.3 for Confluent Cloud Clusters
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.
Why More Teams Are Starting With Confluent Cloud on AWS Marketplace
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.
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.
Using Webhooks to Integrate Confluent Cloud and Microsoft Teams
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.
Confluent Cloud の新機能: あらゆるワークロードにコスト効率の高いストリーミング
大規模ストリーミングがさらに強力でコスト効率に優れたものになりました。弊社Q3（第3四半期）にリリースされた Confluent Cloud には、少ないリソースでより多くの成果を上げるための革新的な機能が満載されています。セキュリティを維持しながらクラウドネットワークコストを削減、引き上げられた接続制限による容易なスケーリングを実現し、シームレスなツール統合によって本番環境対応のエージェントAIを構築できます。
How Confluent Is Enhancing and Easing Migration to Fully Managed Connectors
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...
From Oracle to MongoDB: How to Modernize Your Tech Stack for Real-Time AI Decisioning
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.
Introducing Private Network Interface: Secure Private Networking on AWS for 50% Less
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.
How NeuBird's Hawkeye Automates Incident Resolution in Confluent Cloud
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.
Why Hosted Apache Kafka® Leaves You Holding the Bag
A behind-the-scenes look at why hosted Kafka falls short—and how Confluent Cloud’s architecture solves for cost, resilience, and operational simplicity at scale.
Unlocking Real-Time Analytics on AWS With Tableflow, Apache Iceberg™, and the AWS Glue Data Catalog
Existing Confluent Cloud (CC) AWS users can now use Tableflow to easily represent Kafka topics as Iceberg tables and then leverage AWS Glue Data catalog to power real-time AI and analytics workloads.
Unlock the Power of Your Data Warehouse: Introducing the Snowflake Source Connector for Confluent Cloud
Confluent's new fully managed Snowflake Source connector eliminates operational overhead and transforms static Snowflake warehouse data into real-time operational insights for personalization engines, dashboards, and microservices architectures.
Streamlining Your Workflow – Confluent Cloud Console Feature Roundup
Using Confluent Cloud Console can help operators and developers better understand their Confluent Cloud Kafka clusters, topics and clients. Explore the key improvements with practical examples, highlighting the tangible benefits you can expect, from increased efficiency to better decision-making.