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Initial costs don't tell the whole story. From support gaps to hidden overhead, your 'managed' Kafka service might be costing more than you thought.

Hosted Kafka services from Cloud Service Providers claim to be "fully managed"- until you're stuck with capacity planning, manually tuning configs, configuring VPC networking and troubleshooting performance. The result? More hidden costs and 3am pages for your team.
A truly fully managed Kafka service that is built to scale effortlessly with zero operational burden
All the tooling developers need to build fast, secure, and reliable streaming applications or pipelines
Run Apache Kafka across any cloud, the way you need to
The result? Far fewer tools to manage, fewer fires to put out, and far less budget wasted on a hosted Kafka service.
Lower your infra spend with elastically scaling clusters, cost efficient cluster types for every streaming use case and a completely re-architected Kafka engine for the cloud
Unlock the full value of your streams with the power of fully managed Apache Flink for stream processing, the industry's only fully managed governance suite for Kafka and Tableflow to easily turn Kafka topics into Iceberg or Delta Lake tables
Industry leading 99.99% SLAs- covering both Kafka and the infrastructure it runs on, which keeps your data streaming and your teams focused on what matters

Hosted Kafka services seem affordable—until hidden costs pile up: engineering hours for scaling and upgrades, third-party tools, and limited support. See how Confluent Cloud’s fully managed platform cuts complexity and operational overhead, helping you save and scale from day one.