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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 Confluent Cloud. It demonstrates the basics of using Confluent Cloud, including creating topics and producing and consuming to a Kafka cluster in Confluent Cloud.

Get Access to 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
  • Quick Start
  • Console Basics
  • Manage Schemas
  • Deploy with Terraform
  • Deploy with Pulumi
  • REST API Quick Start for Developers
  • Connect Confluent Platform and Cloud Environments
  • Tutorials and Examples
• Kafka Clusters
  • Overview
  • Copy Data with Cluster Linking
  • Cluster and Topic Configuration Settings
  • Create a Cluster with the Console
  • Cloud Providers and Regions
  • Cluster Management API Quickstart
  • Resize a Dedicated Cluster
  • Multi-tenancy and Client Quotas for Dedicated Clusters
  • Encrypt a Dedicated Cluster Using Self-managed Keys
  • Upgrade Policy
  • Migrate Topics Between Clusters
  • Compliance
• Develop Client Applications
  • Client Architecture
  • Test Clients
  • Monitor Clients
  • Optimize Clients
  • Configure Clients
• Manage Accounts and Access
  • Resource Hierarchy
  • Manage Accounts
  • Authenticate
  • Control Access
  • Access Management Tutorial
• Manage Topics
  • Overview
  • Create, Edit and Delete Topics
  • Use the Message Browser
• Govern Streams and Schemas
  • Stream Governance
  • Manage Schemas
  • Confluent Cloud Schema Registry Tutorial
  • Schema Registry REST API
  • Using Broker-Side Schema Validation
  • Schema Linking
• Connect to External Systems
  • Overview
  • Install Managed Connectors
  • Networking, DNS, and Service Endpoints
  • Connect API
  • Manage Static Egress IP Addresses
  • Preview Connector Output
  • Configure Single Message Transforms
  • View Connector Events
  • Manage Service Accounts
  • Configure RBAC
  • View Errors in the Dead Letter Queue
  • Connector Limits
  • Transforms List
• Process Data Streams
  • Build Data Pipelines with Stream Designer
  • Create Stream Processing Apps with ksqlDB
• Manage Networking
  • Overview
  • Private Endpoints
  • VPC and VNet Peering
  • AWS Transit Gateway
  • Access Confluent Cloud Console with Private Networking
  • Static Egress IP Addresses
  • Test Connectivity
• Log and Monitor
  • Audit Logs
  • Metrics
  • Use the Metrics API to Track Usage by Team
  • Notifications
  • Cluster Load Metric
  • Monitor Consumer Lag
  • Dedicated Cluster Performance and Expansion
• Manage Billing
  • Overview
  • 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
• Manage Service Quotas
  • Overview
  • Service Quotas API
• APIs
  • Confluent Cloud APIs
  • Cluster Management with Kafka REST API
  • Metrics API
  • Stream Catalog REST API
  • GraphQL API
  • Service Quotas API
  • Pipelines API
• Confluent CLI
• Release Notes & FAQ
• Support