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Aiven, Confluent, Redpanda, StreamNative and Ververica Form Streamhouse Working Group
New industry initiative establishes an open category for data architectures that power real-time applications and AI agents
KCP: How to Migrate to Confluent Cloud in Days, Not Weeks
Learn how to migrate to Confluent Cloud in hours using Confluent’s open source Kafka Copy Paste tool. Get an in-depth introduction to the KCP tool and a walk-through of the four steps of migrating from MSK to Confluent Cloud using the tool.
AI Tools for Builders — Confluent's MCP Server & Agent Skills
Confluent's AI developer tools are now GA: an open-source local MCP server, a managed MCP server, and Agent Skills. Together they give AI coding assistants direct access to your streaming platform — the tools to act on it and the domain knowledge to build correctly.
Introducing Real-Time Context Engine: Simplified Context Engineering With Real-Time, Processed Data for AI
Unlock real-time context for AI with Confluent’s Real-Time Context Engine. Evaluate, process, and serve trustworthy context continuously in Confluent Cloud.
Streaming Data to AI-Ready Tables: Tableflow for Delta Lake and Databricks Unity Catalog Is Now Generally Available
Transform real-time Kafka data into governed, AI-ready Delta Lake tables with Confluent Tableflow and Databricks Unity Catalog. Simplify pipelines, ensure governance, and unlock real-time analytics and AI.
New in Confluent Cloud: Data in Motion for AI in Action
Explore updates from Confluent Cloud’s Q4 2025 release, including new capabilities and availability for Streaming Agents, new Real-Time Context Engine, and more.
Tableflow is Production Ready: Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Azure Early Availability (EA), and More Enterprise-Grade Features
Tableflow on Confluent Cloud now supports Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Azure (EA) for secure, governed, real-time analytics from Apache Kafka data - no ETL or custom pipelines required.
Confluent and Your Data: A Partnership You Can Trust
Confluent prioritizes resilience for mission-critical apps, ensuring high availability with 99.99% uptime SLA. We also provide a number of capabilities for monitoring and observability within your own systems.
Connect Migration Utility: Convert Self-Managed Connectors to Fully Managed in a Few Minutes
Use Confluent’s open source Connect migration utility to discover, assess, map, validate, and cut over self-managed Kafka connectors to fully managed in minutes.
Lessons Learned With Confluent-Managed Connectors and Terraform
Learn how to manage connectors in Confluent Cloud as code using the Confluent Terraform Provider—complete with the role bindings and access controls needed to integrate external systems with Apache Kafka.
No More Swamps: Building a Better-Governed Data Lake Architecture
Powering analytics and AI requires reliable, consistent, and easily discoverable data to reach the data lake. To enforce these needs, strong and holistic governance is an important of building better platforms for getting from raw data to valuable insights and actions.
Strengthen Security With TLS 1.3 for Confluent Cloud Clusters
Confluent Cloud is introducing TLS 1.3 for stronger security. It’s available now as an opt-in feature for Dedicated clusters. On April 30, 2026, TLS 1.3 will be enabled by default for all remaining cluster types. Confluent will continue to support TLS 1.2.
Why More Teams Are Starting With Confluent Cloud on AWS Marketplace
Build real-time apps in minutes. Confluent Cloud on AWS Marketplace offers fully managed Kafka with Flink, Iceberg, 120+ connectors, and enterprise-grade governance—so your team spends less time on ops and more on innovation.
Cut the Costs of Hosted Apache Kafka® With Confluent Cloud’s Price Guarantee
This blog post outlines the top four challenges of using hyperscaler-hosted Kafka, focusing on high costs, manual maintenance, reliability gaps, and vendor lock-in. It then explains how Confluent Cloud is architected to solve each of these specific problems for customers.
Using Webhooks to Integrate Confluent Cloud and Microsoft Teams
Learn how to use webhooks to integrate your Microsoft Teams tenant with Confluent Cloud and receive service event notifications directly in your inbox or team channels.
New in Confluent Cloud: Unleashing Cost-Effective Streaming for Any Workload
Confluent Cloud’s Q3 launch delivers cost-effective streaming with new features like Private Network Interface (PNI) for lower networking costs, boosted client connection limits, Streaming Agents for real-time agentic AI, expanded Tableflow functionality with upserts, Cluster Linking on Google Cl...
How Confluent Is Enhancing and Easing Migration to Fully Managed Connectors
Confluent has enhanced its fully managed connectors with new features like exposed connector logs for non-admins, plugin versioning, expanded SMT support, custom topic naming for DLQ and error topics, and specific connector updates. These improvements offer better control, data guarantees, user...