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The Data Streaming Platform

Stream, connect, process, and govern your data with an all-in-one, real-time platform from the pioneer in data streaming. Build faster, scale smarter, and turn data chaos into instantly accessible and usable data products with the market leading Data Streaming Platform.

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Founded by the original co-creators of Apache Kafka®

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Confluent Platform 8.0 is here!

The latest version of Confluent Platform brings ZooKeeper-free Kafka, Client-Side Field Level Encryption (GA), management for Flink with Control Center, and more.

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Announcing the Confluent Cloud Q3 Launch

Lower private networking costs by up to 50% with Private Network Interface, a new cost-effective secure networking option. Also featuring Streaming Agents, making it easier to build event-driven agents on Flink and Kafka for real-time decision making.

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Build Real-Time Products Faster With Confluent

Today’s customers expect a real-time, low-latency experience with every product or service they purchase. Are you delivering it? In this ebook you'll learn how Confluent’s OEM program accelerates time to market while reducing operational risk.

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The 2025 Data Streaming Report

Real-time data = real business results. 4k+ IT leaders reveal how data streaming platforms are helping them scale AI and move faster—all while delivering up to 5x ROI.

The Confluent Data Streaming Platform

A Central Nervous System for Your Entire Organization

Shift left by moving processing and governance closer to the source with a complete Data Streaming Platform. Wherever your data originates. Wherever it needs to go. Whatever you need it to do. The Confluent Data Streaming Platform powers innovation across your entire organization with enriched, trustworthy, and contextualized real-time data anywhere and at any scale.

A Central Nervous System for Your Entire Organization

Confluent Is So Much More Than Kafka

Cloud Native

10x Apache Kafka® service powered by the Kora Engine

  • Elastic scalability with simple scale/shrink for GBps+ workloads and no limit retention
  • Guaranteed resiliency with a 99.99% uptime SLA and built-in data durability
  • Low latency with predictable performance levels, sustained over time
Complete

A complete, enterprise-grade data streaming platform

  • 120+ pre-built connectors across all your apps & data systems
  • In-flight stream processing with serverless Flink
  • Enterprise-grade security & governance
Everywhere

Availability everywhere your data and applications reside

  • Fully managed service available on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
  • Self-managed software available for on-prem & private cloud workloads
  • Hybrid & multicloud flexibility with clusters that seamlessly sync in real time

Reinventing Kafka to Be Cheaper than Free

Self-managing open source Kafka comes with many costs that consume valuable resources and tech spend. Take the Confluent Cost Savings Challenge to see how you can reduce your costs of running Kafka with the data streaming platform loved by developers and trusted by enterprises.

Reduced Infrastructure

Reduce your infra footprint and cloud spend with elastically scaling clusters, automated data balancing, and an optimized compute, storage, and networking stack

Lower Development & Ops Costs

Eliminate the operational burdens of self-managing Kafka and avoid costly resource investments in low-level infrastructure tooling with a complete data streaming platform

Minimized Downtime

Decrease downtime and business disruption with multi-AZ clusters and a 99.99% uptime SLA that covers both Kafka and the underlying infrastructure

Included, Committer-Led Support

Offload support to Confluent’s committer-led experts with 1M+ hours experience delivering Kafka success in the cloud, on-prem, and everywhere in between

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Real-Time Data

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Artificial Intelligence

Your AI models are only as good as the data that’s provided to them. Bring real-time, contextual, highly governed and trustworthy data to your AI systems and applications, just in time, and deliver production-scale AI-powered applications faster.

Confluent enables you to build, deploy, and orchestrate Streaming Agents to unlock high-value automation use cases.

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Event-Driven Microservices

Unlock greater agility and faster innovation with loosely coupled microservices. Use Confluent to completely decouple your microservices, standardize on inter-service communication, and eliminate the need to maintain independent data states.

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Universal Data Mobility

Embrace the cloud at your pace and maintain a persistent data bridge to keep data across all on-prem, hybrid and multicloud environments in sync. Incrementally migrate to the cloud, enable developers to access best-of-breed cloud tools, and build next-gen apps faster.

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Connected Customer Experiences

Capture and process customer interactions as they happen. Build a data-rich view of their actions and preferences to engage with them in the most meaningful ways—personalizing their experiences, across every channel in real time.

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