Announcing Confluent Cloud: Apache Kafka as a Service | Confluent

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This post announces the launch of Confluent Cloud, a fully managed Apache Kafka as a Service. It highlights the simplification of running Kafka in the public cloud, abstracting away operational complexities like setup, configuration, upgrades, backups, monitoring, and security. The service offers Kafka's core capabilities with selectable throughput, retention, and replication tiers, provisioned in seconds. It also emphasizes the inclusion of the entire open-source Kafka ecosystem, including clients, REST proxy, and Schema Registry. The post stresses the operational expertise of the Confluent team, built over years of running Kafka as a service, and the commitment to avoiding vendor lock-in by making Confluent Cloud available on multiple public cloud providers (starting with AWS, followed by Azure and Google Cloud).