Confluent Cloud: Enterprise-Ready, Hosted Apache Kafka is Here!
Nov 28, 2017Neha Narkhede

Summary
This post announces the general availability of Confluent Cloud on AWS, a managed Kafka service. It highlights a 99.95% uptime guarantee and describes how Confluent Cloud provides private Kafka clusters, handling deployment, monitoring, and upgrades. Users configure throughput, availability zones, and data retention. The post also mentions the Confluent Cloud CLI for administrative tasks and directs readers to the product page or a contact form for setup.
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