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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.

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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

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• Overview
• Get Started
  • Free Trial for Confluent Cloud
  • Quick Start for Confluent Cloud
  • Confluent Cloud Console Basics
  • Manage Schemas on Confluent Cloud
  • Confluent Terraform Provider
  • Confluent Cloud provider for Pulumi
  • Confluent Cloud Demos
  • Kafka REST for Confluent Cloud Developers
• Kafka Clusters
  • Features and Limits by Cluster Type
  • Cluster and Topic Configuration Settings
  • Create a Cluster with the Console
  • Cloud Providers and Regions
  • Cluster Management API Quickstart
  • Expand a Dedicated Cluster
  • Shrink a Dedicated Cluster
  • Multi-tenancy and Client Quotas for Dedicated Clusters
  • Encrypt a Dedicated Cluster Using Self-managed Keys
  • Upgrade Policy for Confluent Cloud
  • Migrate Topics Between Clusters
  • Compliance for Confluent Cloud
• Develop Client Applications
  • Architectural Considerations
  • Testing
  • Monitoring Clients
  • Optimizing and Tuning
  • Configure Clients
  • Using Kafka REST
• 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
  • Packages, Features, and Limits
  • 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
  • Tiered Separation of Critical Workloads
  • Mirror Topics
  • Data Migration
  • Security Considerations
  • Private Networking
  • Configuration, Commands, and Management
  • Manage Audit Logs
  • Metrics and Monitoring
  • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Connect to External Systems
  • Overview
  • Networking, DNS, and Service Endpoints
  • 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 Cloud Pub/Sub Source
  • HTTP Sink
  • HTTP Source
  • 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
  • ksqlDB Cluster API Quick Start
  • Monitoring ksqlDB
  • ksqlDB Connector Management in Confluent Cloud
  • Develop applications for ksqlDB
  • Pull queries with Confluent Cloud ksqlDB
  • ksqlDB quick start
  • Confluent Platform 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
  • Confluent Cloud Metrics
  • Use the Metrics API to Track Usage by Team
  • Notifications
  • Cluster Load Metric
  • Monitor Consumer Lag
  • Dedicated Cluster Performance and Expansion
• Quotas for Cloud Resources
  • 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
  • Connect MQTT Proxy to Confluent Cloud
  • Schema Registry and Confluent Cloud
  • Connecting Kafka Streams to Confluent Cloud
  • Auto-Generating Configurations for Components to Confluent Cloud
• Confluent Cloud APIs
  • Confluent Cloud REST APIs
  • Metrics API
  • Stream Catalog REST API
  • Stream Catalog GraphQL API
• Confluent CLI
• Release Notes & FAQ
• Support