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SELF-MANAGED | CONFLUENT PRIVATE CLOUD
Automate & Secure Data Streams In Your Private Cloud
Confluent Private Cloud is a self-managed deployment of our data streaming platform, powered by our most advanced cloud-native automation for multi-tenant environments.
Confluent Private Cloud gives you the building blocks to streamline platform operations, reduce operational risk, and accelerate innovation—all while ensuring you meet the strictest data sovereignty and compliance mandates. See how you can deliver secure, private data streaming across your enterprise.
A Cloud-Like Experience With Complete Control
Delivering a shared data streaming platform on private infrastructure means reliability and a cloud-like experience aren’t optional. Drawing on our experience operating Confluent Cloud, we’ve found ways to cut the infrastructure and operational costs of self-management by ~50%. Now we’re bringing those savings to our customers that run in private environments.
Perfect for central platform teams in large organizations, regulated industries, or managed service providers, Confluent Private Cloud gives you the building blocks to build advanced automation for cluster operations, centralized governance, and usage tracking that makes managing a shared platform simple and efficient. Plus, you'll be able to offer a secure, self-service experience for all your developers and business units, allowing them to build and innovate faster while you maintain complete control.
Scale Your Platform With 10x Performance
Deliver consistent, low-latency performance for your most demanding workloads and support more teams on your existing infrastructure with up to 10x throughput improvements.
Centrally Secure All Your Data Streams
Enforce critical security policies like encryption and masking at the gateway, eliminating the need for client-side code changes and simplifying infrastructure migrations.
Manage and Monitor Your Data Across Clouds
Centrally manage schemas, enforce data quality policies, and track lineage across hybrid and multi-cloud environments to simplify compliance and troubleshooting.
High-Performance Streaming and No Wasted Hardware With Intelligent Replication
Intelligent Replication in Confluent Private Cloud delivers up to 10X better Apache Kafka® performance as your workloads and user counts grow. It automatically tunes replication behind the scenes, ensuring consistently low latency and high throughput—even as partition counts and data volumes increase. Platform teams can support more users and real-time applications on their existing infrastructure, without manual tuning or additional hardware—so you can scale confidently and keep your streaming operations fast and reliable.
Centralized Governance and Control With Confluent Private Cloud Gateway
Confluent Private Cloud Gateway (CPC Gateway) acts as a secure, protocol-aware network proxy between your Kafka clients and clusters, centralizing authentication, authorization, encryption, and governance controls. This enables your platform teams to enforce security policies, manage migrations, and simplify client failover across business units or partners, without changing client or application code.
Unify Management and Monitoring Across Your Entire Data Streaming Service
Delivering a reliable, secure data streaming platform on your private infrastructure requires more than just deploying Kafka. It demands a unified way to manage operations, enforce governance, and monitor the health of the entire platform to ensure every team gets the performance they need.
Unified Stream Manager lets you achieve this. We provide a single pane of glass that centralizes the day-to-day operations of your Confluent Private Cloud deployment, making it easier than ever to:
- Configure and enforce security, governance, and traffic-shaping policies for CPC Gateway
- Monitor the health and performance of your entire platform, from brokers to data replication pipelines
- Simplify the onboarding of new developers and applications with a single, unified endpoint
OEM Program: Bring Real-Time Products to Market Faster With Enterprise-Grade Data Streaming
Secure, Connect, Govern, and Process Your Data
Confluent Private Cloud doesn’t just give you the tools to automate Kafka operations and improve performance—it's a complete data streaming platform that helps you unleash secure, real-time data across your organization.
This complete, private data streaming service enables your platform team to enforce security and governance centrally, and empowers developers to self-serve trusted, enriched streams that can be reused across every application and use case. See how its enterprise-grade capabilities help you create a trusted foundation for innovation and accelerate your most critical data initiatives.
Secure Your Workloads, Wherever They Live
Ensure only authorized users and applications can access your data with granular RBAC and ACLs. Integrate existing security infrastructure using OAuth/OIDC authentication via leading identity providers, with TLS and mTLS encryption for data in transit.
Integrate Existing Data Systems With Pre-Built Connectors
Easily integrate existing data systems with Confluent's extensive library of pre-built connectors, ensuring a consistent flow of data between Kafka and 120+ sources or sinks in your private data cloud.
Govern Data to Streamline Integration, Processing, and Reuse
Govern your data streams with Schema Registry, a centralized repository that enforces data contracts, manages schema evolution with compatibility checks, and ensures data quality across your Kafka ecosystem without impacting developer velocity.
Filter, Enrich and Query Data With Apache Flink®
Empower your developers to build real-time data applications with Confluent Platform for Apache Flink®, a scalable engine for continuous data processing. Offer low-latency, high-throughput capabilities so teams can transform, enrich, and analyze data streams for instant insights.
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What is Confluent Private Cloud?
Confluent Private Cloud is a self-managed deployment of our data streaming platform, powered by our most advanced cloud-native automation for multi-tenant environments. It helps you streamline platform operations, reduce operational risk, and accelerate innovation—all while ensuring you meet the strictest data sovereignty and compliance mandates. See how you can deliver secure, private data streaming across your enterprise.
How is Private Cloud different from Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform?
Confluent Private Cloud delivers cloud benefits—including centralized policy control, automated operations, and scalable multi-tenancy—directly inside your data center. Unlike Confluent Cloud, it runs on your infrastructure for full data residency. Unlike Confluent Platform, it adds automation, governance, and performance innovations designed for platform teams at large enterprises, service providers, and in regulated industries tasked with delivering a centralized, secure data streaming service to a diverse set of users.
Who should use Confluent Private Cloud?
It’s ideal for central IT, data platform teams, managed service providers, and regulated enterprises needing secure, compliant, multi-tenant Kafka-as-a-service for internal or external users—especially where cloud migration is restricted.
What security and compliance features are included with Confluent Private Cloud?
Confluent Private Cloud offers built-in policy enforcement (authentication, authorization, encryption), centralized governance with Unified Stream Manager, Client-Side Field-level encryption, masking, secure migration, and full audit trails—designed for strict regulatory and data residency requirements.
Which cloud providers support Confluent Private Cloud?
Confluent Private Cloud is deployed on your own infrastructure—on-premises or in your private cloud. It’s not a hosted public cloud service, so it’s compatible with any Kubernetes-based environment you control.
Can I use the same connectors, Flink, and AI/agent capabilities?
Yes. Confluent Private Cloud supports all standard Kafka connectors, Flink streaming, and integration with AI/agent frameworks—enabling real-time analytics and advanced data pipelines just like in Confluent Cloud or Platform.
How does Confluent Private Cloud handle performance and reliability?
Confluent Private Cloud delivers up to 10X faster performance through Intelligent Replication, high-throughput and low-latency streaming at scale, automated cluster upgrades, and self-healing operations. Reliability matches cloud standards, even as workloads and users grow.
How do I connect Private Cloud to my existing systems?
Connect using standard Kafka APIs or through Confluent Private Cloud Gateway, which provides a secure, centralized entry point for clients and enforces governance. Integration is seamless for existing applications and data pipelines.
What is Confluent Private Cloud Gateway?
Confluent Private Cloud Gateway is a secure, protocol-aware network proxy for Kafka that centralizes authentication, authorization, encryption, and governance controls. It sits between client applications and your Kafka clusters—on private infrastructure or Confluent Cloud—to enforce security policies, manage migrations, simplify client failover, and aggregate usage metrics for chargeback. No changes are needed in client code, making policy enforcement and compliance much easier for platform teams.
What is Unified Stream Manager?
Unified Stream Manager (USM) is a centralized governance and control plane for Kafka environments. It lets organizations enforce data policies, manage schemas, and trace data lineage across both on-premises and cloud deployments—all from a single console. USM makes compliance, troubleshooting, and auditability much easier by giving platform teams unified visibility and policy automation for every data stream. USM works by securely connecting to your Kafka clusters—whether in Confluent Platform or Confluent Cloud—to centrally manage policies, monitor data flows, and automate governance tasks. Sensitive production data stays in your private infrastructure; only metadata and telemetry are exchanged, enabling secure hybrid operations.
How is Confluent Private Cloud priced?
Pricing is subscription-based per node, at a premium to Confluent Platform Platinum nodes. Unified Stream Manager may have additional licensing.
How do I get started with Confluent Private Cloud?
Contact your Confluent account team or sales representative. Confluent Private Cloud is generally available and requires a Kubernetes foundation for deployment. Qualification and roadmap guidance are available to help plan migration and onboarding.