Confluent and Microsoft are expanding their partnership to accelerate enterprises' journey to cloud data streaming on Azure, with joint technical, marketing, and sales investments to make it easier to build a modern data stack. Confluent's cloud-native service helps migrate and connect data to Azure services with pre-built connectors, making it easy for enterprises to start their first data in motion use case. The partnership aims to reduce the operational burden of managing Kafka and provides joint customers across industries with easy ways to move data to the cloud and access real-time data. With 175 ZB of data being generated by 2025, this new investment will help every enterprise learn about the future of data in motion and its impact on their business.