Confluent Wins Google Cloud Partner of the Year for the Sixth Time

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—April 9, 2025— Confluent, Inc. (Nasdaq:CFLT), the data streaming pioneer, announced today that it has received the 2025 Google Cloud Partner of the Year award for Data & Analytics - Ingestion. Confluent’s complete data streaming platform on Google Cloud enables organizations to stream, connect, process, and govern real-time data across cloud and hybrid environments. Confluent’s collaboration with Google Cloud enables enterprises across industries to drive faster insights, unlock new levels of artificial intelligence (AI) agility, and develop transformative real-time analytics.

“Our partnership with Google Cloud is built on a shared vision to help customers triumph in a data-driven world,” said Paul Mac Farland, SVP of Partner and Innovation Ecosystem at Confluent. “Through our collaboration, we deliver seamless access to the trustworthy, real-time data that’s needed to power agentic AI, personalized experiences, and highly efficient operations. We’re thrilled to be recognized and committed to helping organizations build the future of data architectures together.”

Confluent on Google Cloud offers a scalable, high-performance data streaming platform that integrates with Google Cloud products and services such as the Vertex AI platform, Gemini models, BigQuery, and TensorFlow. It powers real-time AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics to help enterprises stay hyper-competitive. With flexible purchasing options via Google Cloud Marketplace or direct self-serve, Confluent meets businesses wherever they are in their data streaming journeys.

“Google Cloud’s Partner Awards recognize partners who have created outsized value for customers through the delivery of innovative solutions and a high level of expertise,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem at Google Cloud. “We’re proud to announce Confluent as a 2025 Google Cloud Partner Award winner and celebrate their impact on enabling customer success over the past year.”

Partnership Highlights

• As a launch partner for the new Google Cloud Startup Hub, Confluent will help early-stage companies scale faster, drive innovation, and build AI-powered applications with Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink®. Through this partnership, startups leveraging Google Cloud will gain access to Confluent’s complete data streaming platform and technical support to help them unlock the full potential of their data.
• The direct integration between Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink’s AI Model Inference and Gemini models enable developers to incorporate Google Cloud large language models directly into Flink SQL queries for faster, more context-rich insights.
• Confluent Cloud Enterprise clusters are now available on Google Cloud Platform, expanding support for production-ready workloads needing private networking and enhanced security to Google Cloud users.
• Google Cloud was a launch partner for the Confluent Migration Accelerator program, which helps enterprises jump-start their data streaming journeys
• Confluent was a featured launch partner for Google Distributed Cloud, which empowers companies to deploy AI applications from anywhere.
• Confluent was one the first independent software vendor partners to complete the rigorous Google Cloud Solution Validation process, ensuring reliable, seamless integrations.

Additional Resources -Sign up for the Google Cloud Startups Hub. Members get free access to Confluent Cloud for up to a year, plus technical support to seamlessly integrate the industry-leading, fully managed data streaming platform.

• View Confluent on Google Cloud case studies, webinars, and more.
• To get started with Confluent on Google Cloud, head to Google Cloud Marketplace. First-time customers get $1,000 in Confluent credits to use within the first 30 days.
• Visit Confluent at Google Cloud Next (Booth #2072) to see demos and learn about joint use cases.
• Learn more about Confluent’s partner programs.

About Confluent Confluent is the data streaming platform that is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure that sets data in motion. Confluent’s cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion—designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data from multiple sources to constantly stream across an organization. With Confluent, organizations can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital front-end customer experiences and transitioning to sophisticated, real-time, software-driven back-end operations. To learn more, please visit www.confluent.io.

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