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Confluent Cloud is the industry’s only fully managed, cloud-native event streaming platform powered by Apache Kafka®. Built and operated by the original creators of Kafka, Confluent Cloud provides a simple, scalable, resilient, and secure event streaming platform. Sign up for Confluent Cloud to get started.

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Confluent Cloud Quick Start

Learn how to get up and running with the Quick Start for Apache Kafka using Confluent Cloud. It demonstrates the basics of using Confluent Cloud, including creating topics and producing and consuming to a Kafka cluster in Confluent Cloud.

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Confluent Cloud Online Talk

Listen to the Introduction to Confluent Cloud: Apache Kafka as a Service online talk.

Confluent Cloud Demos Overview

Resources to help you build and validate your solutions on Confluent Cloud. It includes automated end-to-end demos and resources to build your own demos, using a combination of fully-managed components in Confluent Cloud and self-managed components.

Confluent Cloud Security

Refer to the Confluent Cloud Security Controls whitepaper.

Documentation

CLOUD

• Overview
• Get Started
  • Free Trial for Confluent Cloud
  • Quick Start for Apache Kafka using Confluent Cloud
  • Confluent Cloud Console Basics
  • ksqlDB in Confluent Cloud
  • Manage Schemas on Confluent Cloud
  • Confluent Terraform Provider
  • REST API Quick Start for Confluent Cloud Developers
  • Confluent Cloud Demos
• Kafka Clusters
  • Features and Limits by Cluster Type
  • Cluster and Topic Configuration Settings
  • Create a Cluster with the Console
  • Expand a Dedicated Cluster
  • Shrink a Dedicated Cluster
  • Cluster Management API Quickstart
  • Cloud Providers and Regions
  • Compliance for Confluent Cloud
  • Upgrade Policy for Confluent Cloud
  • Encrypt a Dedicated Cluster Using Self-managed Keys
  • Migrate Topics
  • Migrate Schemas
• Manage Accounts and Access
  • Resource Hierarchy
  • Manage Accounts
  • Authenticate
  • Control Access
  • Tutorial: Access Management in Confluent Cloud
• Manage Topics in Cloud Console
  • Overview
  • Create, Edit and Delete Topics
  • Use the Message Browser
• Manage Schemas
  • Design, Tag, Evolve, and Manage Schemas
  • Using Broker-Side Schema Validation
  • Schema Linking
• Stream Governance
  • Overview
  • Stream Lineage
  • Stream Catalog
  • Stream Quality
• Cluster Linking
  • Overview
  • Quick Start Tutorial
  • Share Data Across Clusters, Regions, and Clouds
  • Disaster Recovery and Failover
  • Hybrid Cloud and Bridge-to-Cloud
  • Mirror Topics
  • Data Migration
  • Security Considerations
  • Configuration, Commands, and Management
  • Metrics and Monitoring
• Develop Client Applications
  • Architectural Considerations
  • Testing
  • Monitoring clients
  • Optimizing and Tuning
  • Configure Clients
• Connect to External Systems
  • Overview
  • Networking and DNS Considerations
  • ActiveMQ Source
  • Amazon CloudWatch Logs Source
  • Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Sink
  • Amazon DynamoDB Sink
  • Amazon Kinesis Source
  • Amazon Redshift Sink
  • Amazon SQS Source
  • Amazon S3 Sink
  • Amazon S3 Source
  • AWS Lambda Sink
  • Azure Blob Storage Sink
  • Azure Cognitive Search Sink
  • Azure Cosmos DB Sink
  • Azure Cosmos DB Source
  • Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Sink
  • Azure Event Hubs Source
  • Azure Functions Sink
  • Azure Service Bus Source
  • Azure Synapse Analytics Sink
  • Databricks Delta Lake Sink
  • Datadog Metrics Sink
  • Datagen Source (development and testing)
  • Elasticsearch Service Sink
  • GitHub Source
  • Google BigQuery Sink
  • Google Cloud BigTable Sink
  • Google Cloud Dataproc Sink
  • Google Cloud Functions Sink
  • Google Cloud Spanner Sink
  • Google Cloud Storage Sink
  • Google Cloud Storage Source
  • Google Pub/Sub Source
  • HTTP Sink
  • IBM MQ Source
  • InfluxDB 2 Sink
  • InfluxDB 2 Source
  • Jira Source
  • Microsoft SQL Server CDC Source (Debezium)
  • Microsoft SQL Server Sink (JDBC)
  • Microsoft SQL Server Source (JDBC)
  • MongoDB Atlas Sink
  • MongoDB Atlas Source
  • MQTT Sink
  • MQTT Source
  • MySQL CDC Source (Debezium)
  • MySQL Sink (JDBC)
  • MySQL Source (JDBC)
  • Oracle CDC Source
  • Oracle Database Sink (JDBC)
  • Oracle Database Source (JDBC)
  • PagerDuty Sink
  • PostgreSQL CDC Source (Debezium)
  • PostgreSQL Sink (JDBC)
  • PostgreSQL Source (JDBC)
  • RabbitMQ Source
  • RabbitMQ Sink
  • Redis Sink
  • Salesforce Bulk API Source
  • Salesforce CDC Source
  • Salesforce Platform Event Sink
  • Salesforce Platform Event Source
  • Salesforce PushTopic Source
  • Salesforce SObject Sink
  • ServiceNow Sink
  • ServiceNow Source
  • SFTP Sink
  • SFTP Source
  • Snowflake Sink
  • Solace Sink
  • Splunk Sink
  • Zendesk Source
  • Static Egress IP Addresses
  • Connector Data Previews
  • Single Message Transforms
  • View Connector Events
  • Service Accounts
  • RBAC for managed connectors
  • API for fully-managed connectors
  • Dead Letter Queue
  • Limitations
  • Transforms List
  • About Preview Features
• ksqlDB Stream Processing
  • Overview
  • Confluent Cloud quick start
  • Monitoring ksqlDB
  • ksqlDB Connector Management in Confluent Cloud
  • Develop applications for ksqlDB
  • ksqlDB quick start
  • Confluent Platform ksqlDB
• Manage Networking
  • Overview
  • Private Link
  • VPC and VNet Peering
  • AWS Transit Gateway
  • Static Egress IP Addresses
  • Test Connectivity
• Log and Monitor
  • Audit Logs
  • Confluent Cloud Metrics
  • Cluster Load Metric
  • Monitor Consumer Lag
  • Dedicated Cluster Performance and Expansion
• Quotas
  • Service Quotas
  • Service Quotas API
• Billing
  • Confluent Cloud Billing
  • Marketplace Consumption Metrics
  • Azure Marketplace Pay As You Go
  • Azure Marketplace Commits
  • AWS Marketplace Pay As You Go
  • AWS Marketplace Commits
  • GCP Marketplace Pay As You Go
  • GCP Marketplace Commits
  • Marketplace Organization Suspension and Deactivation
• Use Confluent Platform with Cloud
  • Overview
  • Connecting Control Center to Confluent Cloud
  • Connect Clients to Confluent Cloud
  • Connect Kafka Connect to Confluent Cloud
  • Connecting REST Proxy to Confluent Cloud
  • Connecting ksqlDB to Confluent Cloud
  • Manage ksqlDB by using the Confluent CLI
  • Schema Registry and Confluent Cloud
  • Connecting Kafka Streams to Confluent Cloud
  • Auto-Generating Configurations for Components to Confluent Cloud
• Confluent Cloud APIs
  • Confluent Cloud APIs
  • Metrics API
  • Stream Catalog REST API
  • Stream Catalog GraphQL API
• Confluent CLI
• Confluent Cloud CLI
• Release Notes & FAQ