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A multi-protocol proxy for connecting clients and services to Confluent Cloud.
Overview
Zilla Plus is a Kafka-native edge and service proxy. It is a flexible, secure, and reliable way of creating stateless API entry points into your Confluent Cloud cluster for both native and non-native Kafka clients, removing the need for Kafka Connectors, integration pipelines, custom code, and VPNs.
Use Zilla Plus to securely expose your Confluent Cloud cluster to external partners, decouple clients and brokers for disaster recovery, stream data to web/mobile apps for real-time experiences, turn Confluent Cloud into an IoT broker, and more!
[SECURE PUBLIC ACCESS] Enable authorized clients to access your privately-networked Confluent Cloud cluster via a custom domain name over the internet with no changes to underlying brokers. Supports IAM, SASL and mTLS authentication via integrations with AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Certificate Manager (including AWS Nitro Enclaves for automated certificate renewal).
Multiple Zilla Plus instances require only a single NLB, even with multiple brokers. The presence of an NLB ensures that publicly reachable Zilla Plus endpoints to Confluent Cloud can be DDoS-protected via AWS Shield.
[WEB STREAMING] Expose Confluent Cloud topics via SSE (Server Sent Events) endpoints and stream messages to web and mobile clients at scale with reliability and security. Create REST endpoints for clients to POST and PUT updates back into Confluent Cloud topics.
[IOT INGEST & CONTROL] Turn Confluent Cloud into a fully-fledged IoT broker, enabling MQTT clients to directly publish and subscribe to topics. Both MQTT messages and client state are stored in Confluent Cloud, removing the need for a separate dedicated MQTT broker.
[GRPC-KAFKA EVENT MESH] Turn Confluent Cloud into a gRPC server and route service method requests and responses to and from topics. Fan out messages from a Confluent Cloud topic to multiple gRPC clients or proxy messages between a gRPC client and server through Kafka, allowing them to communicate as if they are talking directly to each other.
Highlights
- Flexibility: Seamlessly connect both native and non-native Kafka clients to your public or private Confluent Cloud cluster. Declaratively defined Kafka, REST, SSE, gRPC, and MQTT APIs on top of your cluster.
- Security: Integrations with AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Certificate Manager. Support for Confluent Cloud API Keys used by Kafka clients outside AWS.
- Performance: Zilla proxies are stateless and scale out linearly. When multiple Zilla instances are deployed, only a single NLB is required, even if there are multiple brokers present.
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Secure Public Access
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AmazonLinux 2023.6.20250218.0
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Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time. Alternatively, you can pay upfront for a contract, which typically covering your anticipated usage for the contract duration. Any usage beyond contract will incur additional usage-based costs.
Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your infrastructure costs.
Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t1.micro | $0.60 | $0.02 | $0.62 |
t2.nano | $0.60 | $0.006 | $0.606 |
t2.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.60 | $0.012 | $0.612 |
t2.small | $0.60 | $0.023 | $0.623 |
t2.medium | $1.20 | $0.046 | $1.246 |
t2.large | $1.20 | $0.093 | $1.293 |
t2.xlarge | $2.40 | $0.186 | $2.586 |
t2.2xlarge | $4.80 | $0.371 | $5.171 |
t3.nano | $1.20 | $0.005 | $1.205 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $1.20 | $0.01 | $1.21 |
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Delivery details
Secure Public Access
The following CloudFormation template configures Zilla Plus as a Kafka proxy that enables secure, flexible public internet access to a privately-networked Confluent Cloud cluster. This allows Confluent and Kafka clients from outside the private network access to the full functionality of your Confluent Cloud cluster. For example, to manage topics (create/update/delete), to produce to/consume from topics, or to manage ksqlDB queries. It also supports connecting to a private cluster from a local machine as well as setting up access for third parties, such as partners.
Key features include:
- Support for custom DNS names via the public internet
- Support for Confluent Cloud API Keys used by Kafka clients outside AWS
- Integrations with AWS Certificate Manager and AWS Secrets Manager
Zilla does not require any changes to the underlying cluster, maintaining the privacy and security benefits of a private network.
When multiple Zilla instances are deployed, only a single NLB is required, even if there are multiple brokers present.
CloudFormation Template (CFT)
AWS CloudFormation templates are JSON or YAML-formatted text files that simplify provisioning and management on AWS. The templates describe the service or application architecture you want to deploy, and AWS CloudFormation uses those templates to provision and configure the required services (such as Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon RDS DB instances). The deployed application and associated resources are called a "stack."
Version release notes
Zilla Plus 0.7.64
Additional details
Usage instructions
Follow the step-by-step setup guide available at https://docs.aklivity.io/zilla/next/solutions/how-tos/confluent-cloud/
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Support
Vendor support
Zilla Plus comes with standard enterprise support, which includes a 24x7, 8-hour SLA via email and direct messaging. Advanced enterprise support with a 2-hour SLA is additionally available. To learn more about our support offerings and engage with the team, please visit
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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