Confluent Cloud Q1 ’25 introduces Tableflow, Freight clusters, and Flink AI enhancements

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Tableflow is now generally available, representing Kafka topics and schemas as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake tables. Freight clusters are generally available on AWS, offering cost savings for high-throughput, relaxed-latency workloads by writing directly to object storage. Enterprise clusters on AWS now support Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) and have increased maximum capacity to 32 eCKUs. Apache Flink® AI enhancements include Flink Native Inference for open-source and fine-tuned models, Flink Search for querying databases within Flink SQL for RAG, and built-in ML functions for time-series forecasting and anomaly detection. Confluent for VS Code is now generally available.