Confluent Cloud

Confluent Cloud

What customers
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Apache Kafka® re-engineered for the cloud
Confluent Cloud is the industry’s only fully managed, cloud-native event streaming
platform powered by Apache Kafka. Confluent Cloud integrates with Confluent
Platform for a persistent bridge between private data centers and public clouds forhybrid environments. It is available on multiple public clouds and supports multi-clouddata pipelines.
Built and operated by the original creators of Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud provides
a simple, scalable, resilient, and secure event streaming platform for the cloud-firstenterprise, the DevOps-starved organization, or the agile developer on a mission.
Businesses trust Confluent Cloud

Confluent Cloud and Kafka are
the heart of all our projects,
serving as a backend for new
mobile apps and for collecting
data from assembly lines andlegacy systems.

Ralph Debusmann
Solution Architect,
Bosch Power Tools

Why Confluent Cloud?
Focus on building apps—not managing Kafka clusters— with a fully managed
event streaming service on AWS, Azure and GCP clouds.
Serverless: Scale with cloud-nativeagility
Unleash development velocity byeliminating the burden of sizing andprovisioning clusters. Start streamingin minutes with clusters that elasticallyscale up to 100MBps or with custom
provisioned clusters that meet yourstreaming needs at any scale.
Flexible: Stream across hybrid
or multiple clouds
Build a persistent bridge from an
on-premise Confluent Platform
deployment to Confluent Cloud withthe only hybrid Kafka service in themarket. Stream data between
multiple public clouds including AWS,
Azure and GCP.
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Reliable: Run mission-critical apps
Ensure mission-critical reliability withindustry-leading 99.95% uptime SLAs.
From development to production, protect
your data with enterprise-grade security
and compliance with a service that is
supported and operated by the leading
Apache Kafka experts.

Complete: Do more with Kafka

We truly think of Confluent
Cloud and Kafka as the central
nervous system of our business,spanning everything from thecustomer-facing applications todistribution center operations
from a technology perspective.
Chirag Dadia
Director of Engineering

Get even more value from your data witha complete, fully-managed event
streaming platform built on top of Kafka.
Leverage Schema Registry to ensure datacompatibility, Kafka connectors tointegrate your systems with the click of abutton, and ksqlDB for stream processing
with SQL like semantics.
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Key use cases
Customer 360
Unite all your systems, data sources, and applications into a
global, scalable, event-driven architecture to react in real-time
to your customer’s needs.
Real-time analytics
Evaluate data in real-time and minimize risk due to delayed data
insights coming from batch data processing.
Bridge to cloudStream data from your on-premises Confluent Platform to Confluent
Cloud or between multiple public clouds.
SIEM/SOC modernization
Assess and mitigate cyber threats in real-time by aggregating,integrating and contextualizing threat detections from various sources.

Service offerings
Product & features
Latest stable Apache Kafka version
Storage compaction
Exactly-once guarantees
Non-disruptive upgrades
Encryption (at rest and in motion)
Confluent Schema RegistryksqlDB
Kafka Connect (1)Confluent REST Proxy (2)Replicator (2)Availability
3x replication factor
Single AZ, Multi AZ options
99.95% uptime SLA
Compliance

Data infrastructure for IoT
Enable a scalable IoT data infrastructure that can process theever-increasing volume of IoT data events from connected cars,cities, manufacturing and more.
App modernization & microservices
Evolve your applications from slow, unresponsive shared state
legacy architectures to a lightweight, efficient, and responsive
microservices architecture.

SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3
PCI Level 2
GDPR & HIPAA readiness
Cloud providers
AWSAzure
GCP
Support(1) Connectors not available as fully managed in Confluent Cloud available may be usedas self-managed components.
(2) Currently available as self-managed components of Confluent Platform i.e.,compatible with Confluent Cloud, but require customer management to deploy,upgrade and maintain. Planned future availability as fully-managed service inConfluent Cloud.

Confluent Cloud and the Confluent Cloud logo are registered trademarks of Confluent andits subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Other marks and brands may beclaimed as the property of others. The product plans, specifications, and descriptions herein
are provided for information only and subject to change without notice, and are provided
without warranty of any kind, express or implied. Copyright © 2020 Confluent, Inc.

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