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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
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Cloud interfaces
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Cloud Console

Graphical interface for administering your streaming service, including |ak-tm| topics, clusters, schemas, Connectors, ksqlDB, security, billing, and more.

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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.

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Confluent CLI

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

Cluster creation
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Create cluster

Create a Kafka cluster in Confluent Cloud.

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Cluster types

Expand a cluster

Topic creation
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Create topic

Create a Kafka topic in Confluent Cloud.

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Migrate topics
After getting started
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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

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Manage topics and schemas

Create and manage topics and schemas in Confluent Cloud.

Manage topics

Manage schemas

Message browser

Stream lineage

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ksqlDB in cloud

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

Create streaming queries via ksqlDB
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Billing

View and manage billing for Confluent Cloud.

Billing details

Cluster types