Confluent Cloud for Government

Confluent Cloud for Government is FedRAMP 20x Low Authorization

FedRAMP 20x Low Authorization status marks an essential milestone in providing secure data streaming services to government agencies. This status signifies Confluent’s commitment to rigorous security standards, making it a significant step toward full FedRAMP authorization.

You must contact Confluent to setup a Confluent Cloud for Government organization before you can use the service. To contact Confluent, email: FedRAMP@confluent.io

Confluent Cloud for Government is an Early Access release.

Confluent uses Early Access releases to gather feedback. Early Access is intended for evaluation use in development and non-production testing environments or to provide feedback to Confluent, particularly as it becomes more widely available in follow-on preview editions. The warranty, SLA, and Support Services provisions of your agreement with Confluent do not apply to Early Access. Confluent considers Early Access to be a Proof of Concept as defined in the Confluent Cloud Terms of Service. Confluent may discontinue providing preview releases of the Early Access releases at any time at the sole discretion of Confluent.

This documentation provides broad comparisons between Confluent Cloud for Government and commercial Confluent Cloud. Many procedures and references for the two services are identical. Consider using this approach with this documentation:

  • Use this documentation to discover unique information about Confluent Cloud for Government
  • Use Confluent Cloud documentation to manage Confluent Cloud for Government

This guide assumes your familiarity with Confluent Cloud.

What is Confluent Cloud for Government?

Confluent Cloud for Government is a fully-managed event streaming service for the U.S. government, developed by the same people that built Confluent Cloud. This topic provides an overview of the supported Confluent Cloud for Government features and the available cloud providers and regions. For information about billing and support, see Support and Billing.

Supported Features for Confluent Cloud for Government

Confluent Cloud for Government supports a subset of Confluent Cloud features.

API availability comparison table

The following table identifies the APIs supported for Confluent Cloud for Government.

Feature API Commercial supports Confluent Cloud for Government supports
Billing Costs-(billingv1) Latest version Latest version
Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) Keys-(byokv1) Latest version Latest version
Cluster management Clusters-(cmkv2) Latest version Latest version [*]
Identity and Access Management (IAM) API-Keys-(iamv2) Latest version Latest version
  Users-(iamv2) Latest version Latest version
  Service-Accounts-(iamv2) Latest version Latest version
  Invitations-(iamv2) Latest version Latest version
  Role-Bindings-(iamv2) Latest version Latest version
  Identity-Providers-(iamv2) Latest version Latest version
  Jwks-(iamv2) Latest version Latest version
  Identity-Pools-(iamv2) Latest version Latest version
Kafka API Cluster-(v3) Latest version Latest version
  Configs-(v3) Latest version Latest version
  ACL-(v3) Latest version Latest version
  Consumer-Group-(v3) Latest version Latest version
  Partition-(v3) Latest version Latest version
  Topic-(v3) Latest version Latest version
  Records-(v3) Latest version Latest version
  Cluster-Linking-(v3) Latest version Latest version
Metrics Version-2 Latest version Latest version
Networking Networks-(networkingv1) Latest version Latest version
  Peerings-(networkingv1) Latest version Latest version
  Transit-Gateway-Attachments-(networkingv1) Latest version No support
  Private-Link-Accesses-(networkingv1) Latest version Latest version
  Network-Link-Services-(networkingv1) Latest version Latest version
  Network-Link-Endpoints-(networkingv1) Latest version Latest version
  Network-Link-Service-Associations-(networkingv1) Latest version Latest version
Notifications Subscriptions-(notificationsv1) Latest version Latest version
  Integrations-(notificationsv1) Latest version Latest version
  Notification-Types-(notificationsv1) Latest version Latest version
Organizations Organizations-(orgv2) Latest version Latest version
  Environments-(orgv2) Latest version Latest version
[*]Not all cluster types are supported. See API availability comparison table.

Kafka cluster types

  • Confluent Cloud for Government supports Dedicated Kafka cluster types.

No support for any other Kafka cluster types. For more information on Kafka cluster types, see Confluent Cloud Cluster Types in the commercial Confluent Cloud documentation.

Self-hosted options

Some Confluent Cloud features are not supported in a fully-managed fashion in Confluent Cloud for Government. You can self-host these features. For more information, see Confluent Cloud for Government and Self-managed Components.

  • Kafka Connect
  • Confluent Cloud Schema Registry
  • Flink jobs
  • Confluent Replicator
  • Confluent Cluster Linking

Supported Cloud Providers and Regions for Confluent Cloud for Government

When you create a Kafka cluster in Confluent Cloud for Government, you must designate a government (gov) region. You cannot deploy clusters across government and standard regions. AWS is the only cloud provider for Confluent Cloud for Government.

AWS GovCloud

AWS GovCloud regions meet stringent U.S. government security requirements. To learn more, see the AWS GovCloud documentation.

You can deploy Kafka clusters in the following government regions:

  • us-gov-west-1 (AWS GovCloud US-West)
  • us-gov-east-1 (AWS GovCloud US-East)

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