Confluent is launching its Project Metamorphosis initiative, aiming to bring simplicity of cloud systems to event streaming, with a focus on cost-effectiveness and ease of use, targeting both small-scale and large-scale users of Kafka. The company's Confluent Cloud platform offers three types of clusters optimized for different use cases, including Basic, which allows users to pay only for the amount of Kafka used, making it a lightweight option with low costs for even the smallest use cases. Additionally, Confluent Cloud provides managed connectors, ksqlDB, and schema management using Confluent Schema Registry, among other features, to help reduce hardware needs, drive better utilization, and support multi-tenant operations. The platform also offers a usage-based model that allows users to dynamically scale up without interrupting running applications, providing elasticity and cost savings of up to 60% compared to self-managed approaches.