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Date Published
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Priya Shivakumar, Olivia Greene, Ahmed Saef Zamzam, Prabha Manepalli, Weifan Liang
Word count
1022
Language
English
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None

Summary

Confluent Cloud offers a serverless experience for Apache Kafka on various cloud platforms, eliminating the need for infrastructure configuration and management, and providing true elastic scaling without manual cluster sizing adjustments. With consumption-based pricing, users only pay for what they use, and with an uptime guarantee of 99.95%, downtime due to administrative issues is minimized. Support options range from free community support to paid plans, allowing organizations to choose the level of support that suits their needs, and Confluent Cloud Enterprise provides a custom setup for mission-critical applications. By leveraging Confluent Cloud, organizations can simplify their Kafka environment and focus on building event-driven applications.