Confluent's data streaming platform enables real-time data movement across multiple cloud platforms, eliminating the need for point-to-point connections and providing a singular, global, and real-time data plane. This allows organizations to unlock valuable data from systems, applications, and data stores that run across any number of global environments and stream that data in real time to their cloud database. Confluent's Cluster Linking technology allows users to reach into on-premises Kafka clusters from Confluent Cloud, creating an easy-to-use bridge to bring data into Confluent Cloud in their cloud service provider. By moving to real-time streaming and pulling data from any environment across cloud and on prem, businesses can provide application teams with the data they need faster and deliver new features and capabilities to customers at scale. Confluent offers five pre-built, fully managed CDC connectors for popular databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL, allowing source databases to stay online and operating throughout migration. Choosing a cloud-first approach opens up additional challenges that must be considered, but Confluent can help organizations realize TCO savings of nearly $2.58 million by providing a cost-effective solution for real-time data streaming and ETL pipelines into cloud-based systems.