Confluent Cloud is now available on Microsoft Azure, offering true freedom of choice for public cloud developers who want managed Apache Kafka as a service. With Confluent Cloud, developers can focus on building applications rather than managing infrastructure, and enjoy cloud-native capabilities to quickly harness the power of Kafka. The platform provides a complete event streaming and data modernization solution, including fully managed Kafka, Schema Registry, and ksqlDB, and allows users to scale elastically without sizing and provisioning clusters. Confluent Cloud offers consumption-based pricing, completely configurable dedicated setups, and private networking options, making it an attractive option for organizations looking to improve customer experience, scale their businesses, and sharpen their competitive edge.