Confluent Launches Confluent Cloud in All Three Major Cloud Marketplaces, Introducing the Easiest Way for Any Organization to Harness the Full Power of Event Streaming
Confluent, Inc., the event streaming pioneer, announced the Project Metamorphosis Everywhere release, which brings the simplicity and flexibility of cloud computing to event streaming. As part of the release, Confluent Cloud is now available on the AWS marketplace, making it the only fully managed Apache Kafka service accessible across the three major cloud marketplaces, including Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. With integrated billing and direct access to Confluent Cloud through these marketplaces, Confluent has removed the technical burdens and complicated procurement process of getting started. Now, harnessing the power of event streaming has never been easier. Organizations can quickly build next-generation event streaming applications without the hassle of managing event streaming infrastructure or worrying about what cloud it’s on.
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“Confluent Cloud on AWS gives BAADER the ability to control sharing, replication, and permissions so it can act as a single source of truth across the food value chain”
“The paradigm shift toward event streaming comes at a time when operating in the cloud is a standard for most modern businesses,” said Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO, Confluent. “These two transformational technologies were historically hard to bridge. Through Project Metamorphosis, we’re removing major challenges to deploying Kafka in the cloud, and with direct access to Confluent Cloud through the world’s most popular cloud marketplaces it’s never been easier to get started.”
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Many organizations are turning to cloud to improve scalability, elasticity, and to be more cost-effective. However, because of the point-to-point custom code work needed to integrate a complex distributed system like Kafka, a significant amount of time is required to build and maintain event streaming in cloud environments. In addition, navigating internal procurement processes for new technologies can be a long, cumbersome process that slows down application development.
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