Confluent Cloud is the industry's only fully managed, cloud-native event streaming platform powered by Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka is an open source, distributed streaming platform that enables 100,000+ organizations globally to build event-driven applications at scale. Built and operated by the original creators of Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud provides a simple, scalable, resilient, and secure event streaming platform for the cloud-first enterprise, the DevOps-starved organization, or the agile developer on a mission.

• Run mission-critical apps: Uptime monitoring, 99.95% uptime SLAs, on-demand Kafka bug fixes and upgrades without downtime so that you can truly focus on building applications, not infrastructure.

• Do more with Apache Kafka: Fully managed Schema Registry to ensure data compatibility and managed Kafka connectors to easily integrate your systems with Confluent Cloud.

• Start streaming in minutes: Prebuilt Confluent connectors seamlessly integrate Confluent Cloud with Azure Synapse (formerly Azure SQL Data Warehouse), Azure Data Lake, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Functions, and more.

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Receive up to $50 USD off your bill each calendar month for the first three months. New signups only

Service offerings

Standard

• Apache Kafka made serverless with elastic scaling from 0 - 100 MBps and consumption-based pricing.
• 24x7 expert Kafka support available as optional add-on.
• VNET peering not supported.
• Pricing for Standard Setup

Only pay for what you stream and not for idle capacity.

• Data in $ / GB write: Starts at $0.22
• Data out $ / GB read: Starts at $0.24
• Data stored $ / GB retained: Starts at $0.10 -month (excluding replication)

Price varies by region. Actual pricing is based on the actual region and other parameters chosen while provisioning resources in the actual Confluent Cloud UI.

Dedicated

With no throughput limits, 24x7 expert Kafka support included and private networking options such as VNet peering, it enables you to deploy real-time applications at any scale and with full confidence. Looking for this? Contact us: Azure Team at Confluent