Confluent, Inc.
Fully Managed, Apache Kafka and Apache Flink as a service
Solution Designations
Google Cloud Validated
Google Cloud Ready
Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®, pioneered the enterprise-ready data streaming platform. With Confluent, organizations benefit from the first data streaming platform built for the enterprise with the ease of use, scalability, security and flexibility required by the most discerning global companies to run their business in real time. Companies leading their respective industries have realized success with this new platform paradigm to transform their architectures to streaming from batch processing, spanning on-premises and multi-cloud environments.
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Confluent Cloud is the industry's only fully managed, cloud-native data streaming platform powered by Apache Kafka and Apache Flink. Apache Kafka is an open source, distributed streaming platform that enables 100,000+ organizations globally to build event-driven applications at scale. Confluent Cloud provides a cloud-native, complete data streaming platform delivers elastic, resilient, and performant event streaming capabilities, allowing companies to unlock the full potential of all their data. Kora—the Apache Kafka engine built for the cloud—is proven to lower the total cost of ownership for Kafka by up to 60% and integrates directly with Confluent’s serverless Flink service for in-flight stream processing. Confluent Cloud excels at handling high-volume data streams in real-time.
Confluent has completely re-architected Apache Kafka for Google Cloud and deeply integrated with Google Cloud’s services, security, management, and billing, while allowing customers to cost-effectively retain data at any scale with infinite storage. Confluent empowers organizations to maximize the potential of Google Cloud Generative AI, streamlining the development, deployment, and scalability of Gen AI applications. With its comprehensive platform offering real-time data streaming, integration, scalability, and reliability, Confluent enables businesses across industries to leverage Gen AI for enhanced experiences and problem-solving. Through initiatives like Data Streaming for AI, Confluent accelerates the creation of real-time AI applications in collaboration with Google. As a pioneer in data streaming innovation, Confluent remains committed to meeting the evolving demands of real-time AI by ensuring the availability of trustworthy and relevant data when needed.
Developers use Confluent Cloud to:
- Analyze data at massive scale and in real-time. Stream data to Google Cloud’s big data solutions, including BigQuery, Cloud Machine Learning Engine and TensorFlow.
- Build event-driven applications. Combine Confluent Cloud pub/sub messaging services with Google Cloud Functions, App Engine and Kubernetes.
- Provide a persistent bridge to cloud. Build a real-time data pipeline between datacenters and Google Cloud, and accelerate multi-cloud adoption.
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