Free Apache Kafka as a Service with Confluent Cloud

This post introduces Confluent Cloud as a serverless offering for Apache Kafka, available on GCP, Azure, and AWS. It highlights three key aspects of the serverless experience: focusing on outcomes rather than managing clusters, elastic scaling that grows with load, and consumption-based pricing (per GB data in, data out, and data retained). It also mentions the 99.95% SLA and different support plan tiers.