Name: Confluent Cloud
Rating: 4.4 (81 reviews)

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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

Engineer

3B - 10B USD, Services (non-Government)

FAVORABLE

“Confluent Cloud is bascially the "Easy Button" for Kafka, handling all the messy infrastructure headaches so you can enjoy building real-time apps.”

4.0

Mar 27, 2026

It ticks all the boxes for my needs and provide me with the tools to complete my assignments.

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

Website

http://confluent.io/

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Confluent Cloud Likes & Dislikes

It's integrated across all our platforms and allows me to share knowledge with my collegues on all these platforms.

Confluent provides infinite data storage and retention for Kafka topics. It is simple to scale mission critical apps on the platform. It provides a best platform to scripting and workflow automation.

Managed service and supports all 3 cloud providers, quick onboarding and adoption.

The interface could use an upgrade. It looks a bit Old Skool.

The integration of this product with others is challenging task. It could be automated to remove some burden from developers. User interface needs to be updated as per expectations from customer.

Closely monitor the cost

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Market Guide for Event Stream Processing

1B-10B USD

Services (non-Government)

Review Source

Confluent Cloud is bascially the "Easy Button" for Kafka, handling all the messy infrastructure headaches so you can enjoy building real-time apps.

SR. ENTERPRISE CLOUD ARCHITECT

10B+ USD

Healthcare and Biotech

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

Manufacturing

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

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

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

Jun 5, 2024

A good cloud native offering over the experience of Confluent has been positive to date.

HEAD OF INTEGRATION

Media

Effortless Adoption of Fully Managed Kafka Platform via AWS Marketplace

May 31, 2024

Perfect fully managed Kafka Platform. Zero infrastructure activities, ready to use