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# External Services for Confluent Cloud Connections

Confluent Cloud connections provide reusable, secure authentication to external services.
The following table lists supported external services, their service codes, and
configuration parameters.

- For service-specific details, see the service provider’s documentation.
- For details on using connections, see [Manage Connections with External Services in Confluent Cloud](manage-connections.md#manage-connections).

| Service                                                                     | Service (code)   | Configuration parameters                                                                                  |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [Amazon Bedrock](https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/)                           | `BEDROCK`        | * `endpoint`<br/>* `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`<br/>* `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`<br/>* `AWS_SESSION_TOKEN` (optional) |
| [Amazon SageMaker](https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/)                       | `SAGEMAKER`      | * `endpoint`<br/>* `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID`<br/>* `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`<br/>* `AWS_SESSION_TOKEN` (optional) |
| [Azure ML](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/)       | `AZUREML`        | * `endpoint`<br/>* `API_KEY`                                                                              |
| [Azure OpenAI](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/) | `AZUREOPENAI`    | * `endpoint`<br/>* `API_KEY`                                                                              |
| [Couchbase](https://www.couchbase.com/)                                     | `COUCHBASE`      | * `endpoint`<br/>* `USERNAME`<br/>* `PASSWORD`                                                            |
| [Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/)                                          | `ELASTIC`        | * `endpoint`<br/>* `API_KEY`                                                                              |
| [Google AI](https://ai.google.com/)                                         | `GOOGLEAI`       | * `endpoint`<br/>* `API_KEY`                                                                              |
| [Google Vertex AI](https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai)                      | `VERTEXAI`       | * `endpoint`<br/>* `SERVICE_KEY`                                                                          |
| [MongoDB](https://www.mongodb.com/)                                         | `MONGODB`        | * `endpoint`<br/>* `USERNAME`<br/>* `PASSWORD`                                                            |
| [OpenAI](https://openai.com/)                                               | `OPENAI`         | * `endpoint`<br/>* `API_KEY`                                                                              |
| [Pinecone](https://www.pinecone.io/)                                        | `PINECONE`       | * `endpoint`<br/>* `API_KEY`                                                                              |

## Related content

* [Manage Connections with External Services in Confluent Cloud](manage-connections.md#manage-connections)
* [Reuse Confluent Cloud Connections With External Services](overview.md#connections-overview)
