Here is a neutral and interesting summary of the provided text in one paragraph: Confluent Cloud has made significant strides in providing a cloud-native event streaming service, enabling users to scale their Kafka workloads instantly without provisioning or sizing clusters. This allows for elastic scaling from 0 to 100 MB/s and tens of GB/s with provisioned capacity, while paying only for the data streamed to Kafka. The service also introduces Confluent Schema Registry, Kafka S3 sink connector, and ksqlDB as fully managed services, addressing gaps in managed Apache Kafka services. With transparent consumption-based pricing, users can get a realistic production cluster for $50 per month with no commitment or fees. This marks a key step forward in providing a complete event streaming platform for building contextual event-driven applications that power today's event-driven enterprise.