Confluent Cloud

byConfluent
in
4.5
Market Presence: Event Stream ProcessingEvent Brokers

Overview

Product Information on Confluent Cloud

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Confluent Cloud?

Confluent Cloud is a software designed to manage and process real-time data streams using Apache Kafka as its underpinning technology. The software offers fully managed capabilities for streaming data integration, enabling users to connect applications, services, and systems in real time. It facilitates data ingestion, transformation, and routing from various sources to destinations without the need for manual infrastructure management. Confluent Cloud supports scalability, monitoring, and data governance features, allowing organizations to address challenges related to building event-driven architectures and integrating disparate data systems. The software is utilized by businesses that require reliable and efficient handling of large volumes of streaming data for analytics, application development, and operational systems.

Overall experience with Confluent Cloud

SR. ENTERPRISE CLOUD ARCHITECT
30B + USD, Healthcare and Biotech
FAVORABLE

Unraveling the Efficacy of Confluent Cloud in EDA Strategy Implementation

5.0
Dec 30, 2024
Confluent Cloud is the perfect tool to implement an EDA strategy and managed Kafka service provider. It's very easy to deploy, configure and use on your own cloud platform and offers a wide range of features. In-built connectors for various systems and ksqlDB for stream processing are true differentiators.
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
30B + USD, Construction
CRITICAL

Highly scalable real-time streaming software

3.0
Aug 8, 2022
Confluent has a scalable and real-time storage which is similar as Kafka. The best part about using Confluent is it provides out of the box connectors to many popular data sources in Kafka ecosystem.

About Company

Company Description

Confluent operates as a data infrastructure entity with a distinct emphasis on data in motion. Offering a cloud-native platform, the company works to support continuous streaming of real-time data from various sources across organizations. Confluent assists businesses to meet the demand of delivering digital customer experiences and immediate operational proceedings. The company's primary objective is to aid all organizations in leveraging data in motion, providing them with competitive edge to flourish in today's fast-paced environment.

Company Details

Company type
Public
Year Founded
2014
Head office location
Mountain View, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000

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4.5

(80 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

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53%
4 Star
38%
3 Star
10%
2 Star
0%
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0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.5

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • SR. ENTERPRISE CLOUD ARCHITECT
    10B+ USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Unraveling the Efficacy of Confluent Cloud in EDA Strategy Implementation

    5.0
    Dec 30, 2024
    Confluent Cloud is the perfect tool to implement an EDA strategy and managed Kafka service provider. It's very easy to deploy, configure and use on your own cloud platform and offers a wide range of features. In-built connectors for various systems and ksqlDB for stream processing are true differentiators.
  • IT Engineer & Support Technician
    1B-10B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Easy to roll out implementation and very reliable in streaming all data without any issue

    5.0
    Jul 10, 2024
    Confluent Cloud is efficient and provides immense data computing power and it has also done well integrating with our different services. Having the effective and easily accessible operational support in the background of this tool truly makes it work for our needs.
  • pre sales solutions architect
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Simplicity, Scalability and Availability , SC solutions deliver on all these points

    4.0
    Jun 5, 2024
    A good cloud native offering over the experience of Confluent has been positive to date.
  • HEAD OF INTEGRATION
    1B-10B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Effortless Adoption of Fully Managed Kafka Platform via AWS Marketplace

    4.0
    May 31, 2024
    Perfect fully managed Kafka Platform. Zero infrastructure activities, ready to use
  • ANIMATOR
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Facilitating Seamless Cloud Migration and Resource Management

    4.0
    May 13, 2024
    It can help you with end to end cloud migration and management of resources
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