Confluent and Microsoft have successfully integrated Confluent Platform into the Azure Marketplace, allowing users to rapidly deploy a complete cluster with the click of a button. The deployment includes Apache Kafka services along with additional commercial components, enabling reliable data integration within and between Azure environments. With Confluent Platform on Azure, customers can benefit from a virtually immune deployment due to the combined architecture of Apache Kafka and the advanced reliability of the Azure platform. Additionally, users can customize their deployments for predicted workloads and integrate data systems using the Kafka Connect framework, allowing them to build flexible pipelines with minimal effort.