Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink Now Generally Available

This post announces the general availability of Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink. It highlights the serverless nature of the offering, including elastic autoscaling, always-updated runtime, and usage-based billing. It details the various ways to interact with Flink (CLI, SQL Workspaces, Data Portal, Flink Actions) and mentions early access to Java UDFs. The post emphasizes cloud-native reliability with exactly-once processing and consistent checkpoints. It also covers production operations through programmatic deployments (REST API, Terraform) and integration with monitoring tools. The seamless integration with Kafka and Schema Registry, along with Stream Lineage, is also a key focus.