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|ccloud|
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Features
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Kafka ecosystem
    |ccloud| is comprised of open-source Apache Kafka APIs.

Multi-cloud support
    |ccloud| is agnostic to its cloud platform, so you can “lift and shift” your Kafka applications
    from any location in or out of |ccloud|. All of the infrastructure is based on open-source components, allowing
    you to recreate your data pipelines outside of |ccloud| and migrate your pipelines at your discretion.

Kafka experts
    Backed by the team that created Kafka. |ccloud| is managed by the Kafka experts so it’s running with
    best practices, the latest Kafka version, and means upgrades are pain free.

For more information on supported features, see :ref:`cloud-limits`.


Getting Started
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|ccloud| Quick Start
    Learn how to get up and running with the :ref:`cloud-quickstart`. It demonstrates the basics of using |ccloud|,
    including creating topics and producing and consuming to a Kafka cluster in |ccloud|.

Get Access to |ccloud|
    Click `here <https://www.confluent.io/confluent-cloud/>`_ to get access to |ccloud|.

|ccloud| Online Talk
    Listen to the `Introduction to Confluent Cloud: Apache Kafka as a Service
    <https://www.confluent.io/online-talk/introducing-confluent-cloud/>`_ online talk.

|ccloud| Demo
    Learn how to deploy a Kafka streaming ETL with the
    `Confluent Cloud demo <https://github.com/confluentinc/examples/tree/master/ccloud>`_.  The demo uses KSQL
    for stream processing, Confluent Replicator for moving data from on-prem to |ccloud|, and |c3-short| for monitoring.

Documentation
    .. toctree::
            :maxdepth: 1
            :titlesonly:

            ../quickstart/cloud-quickstart
            using/index
            connect/index
            cli/index
            tools
            vpc
            faq
            limits
            release-notes