Data Streaming in the Clouds: Where to Start | Confluent

This post introduces Apache Kafka as a key enabler for hybrid, cloud-only, and multi-cloud strategies, highlighting its role in building streaming data pipelines and bridging to the cloud. It presents Confluent Replicator as a solution for replicating data across datacenters and public clouds for disaster recovery and migration, contrasting it with open-source MirrorMaker and detailing its enterprise features. The post also outlines a hub-and-spoke architecture for hybrid cloud migration using Kafka and discusses the benefits of a fully managed Kafka service like Confluent Cloud for simplifying cloud migrations.