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The easiest way to run Kafka on AWS. Confluent Cloud is a cloud-native, complete data streaming platform built for real-time processing and data analytics on AWS. Powered by Apache Kafka®, Apache Flink®, and Confluent's own cloud-native Kafka engine, Kora, it offers serverless stream processing, 60% lower TCO than self-managed Kafka, and 120+ pre-built connectors for services like Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon DynamoDB. Start fast with $1,000 in free credits and hands-on support from Confluent's Cloud Engineers to accelerate your proof of concept and power modern applications with a complete, fully managed solution.
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Confluent Cloud: Real-Time Data Streaming for AI, Analytics & Modern Apps
Maximize your Kafka on AWS, minimize your spend. Confluent Cloud is a fully managed, cloud-native, complete data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka®, Apache Flink®, and Apache Iceberg™.
It's 60% more cost-effective than self-managed Kafka, with autoscaling, 120+ pre-built connectors, and enterprise-grade support. It delivers elastic, resilient, and performant event streaming - powering real-time AI, microservices, machine learning, and analytics while helping teams modernize faster in the cloud. Get started with $1,000 in free credits - bill directly through AWS Marketplace.
Built for AWS, Any Way You Need It.
- Expert Support with Enterprise SLAs: Ensure high availability and offload Kafka operations with 99.99% uptime SLA coverage for core Kafka operations - ensuring resilience, availability, and faster resolution.
- Stream Processing with Apache Flink: Go from raw data to insights faster using a serverless Flink service to filter, join, and enrich data in real-time - no ops needed.
- Real-Time Analytics with Tableflow: Convert Kafka topics to Apache Iceberg tables to power downstream analytics across AWS services like Glue, Redshift, Athena, EMR, and SageMaker Lakehouse.
- Deeply Integrated with AWS Services: 120+ pre-built connectors make it easy to stream data to and from Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and more - right from the AWS console. Confluent Cloud is billed directly through the AWS Marketplace, so you can draw down on your existing AWS commit and skip the paperwork.
Free $1000 Credit to Build Your PoC
Start for free with $1,000 in credits (includes $400 instantly and $600 via promo code) to build your proof of concept or a demo consumer streaming app for your team.
Highlights
- 60% Lower Total Cost of Ownership: Fully managed, elastic, and performant clusters make Confluent Cloud cheaper to run and manage than self-managed Kafka - giving you a more cost-effective alternative to managed Kafka services.
- Proof-of-Concept Support Included: Personalized architecture reviews, solutions brainstorming, connector setup assistance, and technical guidance from Confluent Engineers to help you design the right data streaming architecture for your needs.
- Complete Data Streaming Platform on AWS: Go beyond Kafka with 120+ pre-built source and sink connectors, stream processing with Apache Flink, real-time analytics with Apache Iceberg, Data Governance, and Security - all in one cloud-native solution.
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Confluent Consumption Unit | $0.01 |
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This listing bills through a single dimension: the Confluent Consumption Unit. It uses a pay-as-you-go model, so you pay only for the resources you actually use. There are no fixed tiers or upfront quantities to select. Your charges accumulate as you stream, connect, process, and govern data. Usage across Kafka clusters, connectors, Apache Flink stream processing, and Stream Governance all draws from this one consumption unit. Costs scale with your consumption over time. This structure lets your spend rise and fall with actual workload rather than a preset commitment.
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It is a common billing unit that all consumption draws from. Kafka clusters bill for elastic capacity units per hour, networking per GB, and storage per GB. Connectors bill by throughput and a per-task rate. Stream processing bills by processing units per minute. Governance bills per environment per hour.
Clusters autoscale up to meet demand and back down as workloads fall, with no manual action. You pay only for the resources used when you use them. So your bill rises during peaks and drops when activity slows, without provisioning fixed capacity.
Charges apply simultaneously across streaming, connectors, stream processing, and governance. Streaming clusters bill by capacity, networking, and storage. High data throughput usually drives cost for busy pipelines. Heavy stream processing adds per-minute compute charges. All charges appear together on one invoice tied to actual usage.
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Stream Processing Engine
Apache Flink serverless service for real-time data filtering, joining, and enrichment without operational overhead
Data Integration Connectors
120+ pre-built source and sink connectors for AWS services including Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda
Real-Time Analytics Platform
Apache Iceberg integration to convert Kafka topics into tables for downstream analytics across AWS Glue, Redshift, Athena, EMR, and SageMaker Lakehouse
Service Availability
99.99% uptime SLA coverage for core Kafka operations with enterprise-grade support and faster issue resolution
Cloud-Native Architecture
Fully managed, elastic, and auto-scaling Kafka clusters built on Apache Kafka and Confluent's cloud-native Kora engine
Kafka API Compatibility
Full Apache Kafka API compatibility enabling seamless integration with existing Kafka-based applications and tools
Managed Connectors
300+ built-in connectors to popular data systems including Snowflake, MongoDB, Amazon S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Lambda, Bedrock, DynamoDB, and CDC for MySQL and PostgreSQL on RDS
Tiered Storage Architecture
Automatic tiered storage that rolls data from brokers to object storage, delivering up to 8-9x savings in long-term data retention costs
Deployment Flexibility
Multiple deployment options including Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC), Dedicated, and Serverless cloud products with zero-downtime upgrades and patching
Service Reliability
Uptime SLA of 99.99% for Dedicated deployments and 99.9% for Serverless deployments with automatic cluster balancing and built-in monitoring
Distributed Messaging and Streaming Platform
Apache Pulsar open-source distributed messaging and streaming platform with support for both messaging and streaming use cases
Multi-Language Client Library Support
Rich client library ecosystem with support for C/C++, Python, Java, GO, JavaScript, Rust, and additional programming languages
Kafka Compatibility Layer
Kafka On StreamNative (KSN) offering enabling compatibility between Pulsar and Kafka ecosystems
Cloud Storage Integration
Lakehouse Storage support with integration to AWS S3, supporting Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake formats for data offloading and real-time analytics
Serverless Functions and Event Processing
Pulsar Functions enabling event-driven applications and real-time data processing capabilities
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Customer reviews
anil c.
Easy Setup and Smoother Event Management
Reviewed on Oct 29, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Confluent helps manage events well, and I find it easy to solve with. The initial setup was relatively easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Confluent for event-driven logs, and it helps me manage events well.
Ajay V.
Easy-to-Manage Kafka for Fast, High-Volume Integration
Reviewed on Oct 29, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I use Kafka’s pub-sub model when a file or process needs to be read and understood by multiple applications. I find Confluent easy to configure, and I don’t have to host or manage the server because others manage it for us, which makes it easy and convenient. We host it on the cloud, and Kafka is faster and better than IBM MQ. We process around 8 million documents a day, and Kafka is fast enough to keep up with that volume and process the files. I’m very happy with how the product works.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I need files to be searched and files or processes to be read and understood by multiple applications; Kafka’s pub-sub model helps with that.
David H.
Easy Data Stream Connectivity That Just Works
Reviewed on Oct 29, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
ease to connect application to data stream
What do you dislike about the product?
lack of naming conventions creates hectic rework
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
access to real time data in the manufacturing space
Financial Services
Auditing Made Easy for Reliable Traceability
Reviewed on Oct 29, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to have auditing in place for getting required tracing of the details.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing at the moment that I can think of stating
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Proving the required data for us to trace what we have application captured
Airlines/Aviation
Great for Streaming Data Across AIs, Though Not Essential for Students
Reviewed on Oct 28, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like its function to stream data across many ai's
What do you dislike about the product?
don't really have a use for it as a student
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helped me stream data about a subject in school