Azure Networking Overview on Confluent Cloud
Confluent Cloud supports the public and private networking solutions on Azure.
Public networking solutions
Confluent Cloud offers data in motion services that can be shared across organizations over the secure public endpoints. Confluent Cloud services include the public connectivity for the Basic, Standard, and Dedicated cluster types.
Confluent Cloud clusters with secure public endpoints are protected by a proxy layer that prevents types of DoS, DDoS, syn flooding, and other network-level attacks.
For Confluent Cloud clusters with public connectivity, you can use public egress IP addresses to communicate with external resources (such as data sources and sinks for managed connectors) over the secure public endpoints. For details, see Use Public Egress IP Addresses on Confluent Cloud for Connectors and Cluster Linking.
Private networking solutions
Confluent Cloud supports data in motion services that are shared privately with organizations on private networks and offers additional customization and controls for security and privacy. The following private networking solutions are supported on Azure.
Feature |
VNet Peering |
PrivateLink (Inbound) |
PrivateLink (Outbound) |
|---|---|---|---|
Enterprise cluster |
No |
No |
|
Dedicated cluster |
Yes |
No |
|
Connect |
Yes |
No |
Yes: Dedicated |
Connect with Enterprise Kafka clusters |
No |
No |
Yes: Serverless |
Flink |
Yes |
Yes: Serverless, Dedicated |
No |
Schema Registry |
Yes |
Yes: Serverless, Dedicated |
No |