Cluster Linking is a feature in Confluent Cloud that enables the creation of a single "virtual Kafka cluster" that spans globally, allowing event streams to travel seamlessly between different clusters around the world, accurately preserving the exact order, partitioning, and offsets of the original data streams. This feature addresses the challenge of running Apache Kafka in a globalized environment, providing a zero-bottleneck, highly available architecture and allowing for buffering indefinitely to support high latency and unreliable networks. Cluster Linking can be used to create hybrid cloud solutions, where critical datasets are made available as event streams, and can also be used in multi-cloud strategies, unifying the movement of data among thousands of microservices across different cloud providers. The feature is currently in early access on selected regions of Confluent Cloud and will be rolled out globally in the near future.