Confluent Cloud is a fully-managed streaming data service based on open-source Apache Kafka that allows developers to build mission-critical streaming applications with ease, without the operational burden of managing their own clusters. The service provides a single source of truth and supports hybrid deployments across multiple cloud providers and on-premises environments. To design and manage these applications, Confluent offers tools such as KSQL for stream processing, Confluent Replicator for data migration, and Confluent Control Center for monitoring. Developers can also leverage the service to enhance stateful processing capabilities with versioned key-value state stores. By using Confluent Cloud, developers can accelerate building enterprise-ready streaming platforms in the cloud.