Leave Apache Kafka Reliability Worries Behind with Confluent Cloud’s 10x Resiliency
Blog post from Confluent
Confluent Cloud offers a highly resilient and reliable data streaming service that surpasses the capabilities of open-source Apache Kafka, delivering a 99.99% uptime availability SLA, which significantly reduces potential downtime. This is achieved through extensive investments in redundancy, proactive monitoring, and self-healing automation, ensuring data integrity and service continuity even during major cloud outages affecting providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP. The service's design includes features like Cluster Linking and Schema Linking, allowing seamless multi-region disaster recovery and enhanced data durability, which benefits organizations by reducing the operational burden traditionally associated with maintaining such high availability and durability with Kafka. Confluent Cloud's architecture, which simplifies the deployment of multi-region disaster recovery strategies, is credited with enabling companies like 10x Banking to deliver hyper-personalized and flawless financial products to their clients.