Confluent Cloud

Confluent Cloud Documentation

A fully-managed data streaming platform, available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, with a cloud-native Apache Kafka® engine for elastic scaling, enterprise-grade security, stream processing, and governance.

Quick start

Products

Kafka Connect

Use connectors to stream data between Apache Kafka and other systems that you want to pull data from or push data to.

Schema Registry and Stream Governance

Schema Registry is a centralized repository with a RESTful interface to store and retrieve Avro®, JSON Schema, and Protobuf schemas. It is a key component of Stream Governance, supporting data quality, integrity, compliance, and evolution.

Flink

Apache Flink® is a powerful, scalable stream processing framework for running complex, stateful, low-latency streaming applications on large volumes of data.

Kafka Clients

Clients make it fast and easy to produce and consume messages through Apache Kafka. Official Confluent clients are available for Java, along with librdkafka and derived clients.

Confluent CLI

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

Confluent Terraform

Use HashiCorp Terraform to deploy and manage your Confluent Cloud infrastructure.

Stream Lineage

Graphical interface of event streams and data relationships, showing the movement of data from source to destination, and how it is transformed as it moves.

Confluent Cloud APIs

API reference for managing your Confluent Cloud deployment.

ksqlDB

A database that is purpose-built to help developers create stream processing applications on top of Apache Kafka.

Get started

Confluent Cloud Quick Start

Get quickly up and running with Confluent Cloud, including connecting to a broker, creating a topic, and producing and consuming data from a cluster.

Features and Limits

Learn about the Apache Kafka cluster types supported features.

Control Access using RBAC

RBAC protects your resources and data by authorizing and restricting access of user and service accounts and by delegating access authorization appropriately.

Learning resources

Introduction to Kafka Connect

Learn the fundamentals of Kafka Connect with this video course.

Create an Apache Kafka Client App

Build a client app that produces and consumes messages from an Apache Kafka cluster using popular clients, including Java, .NET, Python, Node.js, C/C++, and Go.

Getting Started with Kafka Streams

Learn the fundamentals of Kafka Streams with this video course.