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Confluent Cloud

Confluent Cloud provides a simple, scalable, resilient, and secure event streaming platform. Sign up for Confluent Cloud to get started.

Quick start

Cloud interfaces

Cloud Console

Graphical interface for administering your streaming service, including Apache Kafka® topics, clusters, schemas, Connectors, ksqlDB, security, billing, and more.

Cloud API

Confluent Cloud APIs are a core building block of Confluent Cloud. You can use the APIs to manage your own account or to integrate Confluent into your product.

Confluent CLI

Command line interface for administering your streaming service, including Apache Kafka topics, clusters, schemas, Connectors, ksqlDB, security, billing, and more.

Cluster creation

Create cluster

Create a Kafka cluster in Confluent Cloud.

Topic creation

Create topic

Create a Kafka topic in Confluent Cloud.

After getting started

Connections

Confluent Cloud offers pre-built, fully managed Kafka Connectors that make it easy to instantly connect to popular data sources and sinks.

Connect clients

Connect external systems

Manage topics and schemas

Create and manage topics and schemas in Confluent Cloud.

ksqlDB in cloud

Easily build stream processing applications with simple, lightweight SQL syntax.

Create streaming queries via ksqlDB

Billing

View and manage billing for Confluent Cloud.

Billing details

Cluster types