Data Streaming in the Clouds: Where to Start | Confluent

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This post details how Apache Kafka can be leveraged for hybrid, cloud-only, and multi-cloud strategies, addressing challenges in migrating existing systems to the cloud and architecting for data movement across multiple applications and clouds in real-time. It introduces Confluent Replicator as a solution for replicating data across datacenters and public clouds, illustrating its use in hybrid, multi-cloud, and cloud-only environments. The post contrasts Confluent Replicator with open-source MirrorMaker, highlighting enterprise-critical features of Replicator. It also suggests using a hub-and-spoke implementation based on a central Kafka platform for hybrid architectures and discusses the benefits of a fully managed Kafka service like Confluent Cloud for simplifying cloud migrations.