Confluent Cloud Now Supports AWS PrivateLink for Secure Network Connectivity

What this post added

This post details the addition of AWS PrivateLink support for Confluent Cloud Dedicated clusters, enabling secure, private network connectivity from customer VPCs. It explains the benefits over VPC peering, such as avoiding IP address coordination and enforcing one-way connectivity. The technical implementation involved updating networking infrastructure to use Network Load Balancers for PrivateLink service endpoints and building new automation for self-serve creation and registration of customer AWS accounts.