Confluent's cloud-native, complete, and fully managed Kafka service offers businesses significant cost savings and benefits by offloading the burden of self-managing open source Kafka in-house. Forrester's Total Economic Impact study found that using Confluent Cloud delivered a 257% return on investment with a payback period of less than six months, resulting in TCO savings of nearly $2.58 million for businesses compared to self-supporting open source Kafka. By leveraging Confluent Cloud, organizations can eliminate the risks and burdens associated with managing data infrastructure, freeing their teams to focus on differentiating efforts. With industry-leading support and services from the original creators of Kafka, Confluent provides a secure, scalable, and reliable platform for modern business operations.