Today, I am thrilled to announce a new strategic alliance with Microsoft to enable a seamless, integrated experience between Confluent Cloud and the Azure platform. This represents a significant milestone in our ongoing collaboration with the Microsoft engineering and product teams that deepens our strategic and technical alignment with the Microsoft ecosystem. We have made it even easier for Azure customers to accelerate their journey to the cloud with event streaming, Apache Kafka®, and Confluent as the central nervous system of their business.
This alliance is also another milestone towards our vision of converging the many benefits of cloud computing with an open source system like Kafka. Last year, we solved a huge part of that puzzle with Project Metamorphosis and have set the bar for what customers can expect from an event streaming platform. Through this alliance with Microsoft, we’re extending all that really hard work to all Microsoft Azure customers. Now, large Kafka deployments that typically took teams of people months to build—Azure customers can get at the click of a button. They can even get started for free.
With Confluent Cloud as an integrated part of the Azure ecosystem, companies can leverage Kafka to quickly deliver real-time modern applications, providing the personalized, frictionless, enterprise-ready experience customers expect today.
Confluent Cloud on Azure enables companies to:
The combination of fully managed Kafka in Confluent Cloud and the scalability and security of Azure will propel businesses forward in the ever-changing digital landscape. With Confluent Cloud integrated into the Azure Marketplace, signing up is seamless and billing is simple. All of your Confluent Cloud usage will apply to your existing Azure commitment with Microsoft.
To learn more, check out Microsoft’s announcement.
Confluent is thrilled to be named Microsoft’s 2024 OSS on Azure Global Partner of the Year. As a three-time Partner of the Year award winner, this recognition reflects our commitment to delivering outstanding open source-based applications and infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure.
In the past, technology served as a supportive function for business. Over time, it has become the business itself. A similar shift is happening with data streaming—data streaming is now a critical foundation of modern business. And this year is an inflection point for data streaming platforms