Confluent Cloud

Accelerate enterprise streaming and AI workloads with new product updates across Kora, connectors, Flink, Tableflow, AI anomaly detection and forecasting, security enhancements, and WarpStream.

Explore new AI features and AI tools: support for IBM Granite Time Series models and TimesFM models (EA), enhanced Real-Time Context Engine experience, new Agent Skills, Confluent Copilot

Flink now acts as a robust engine for developers through Table API, User-Defined Functions (UDFs), and Process Table Functions (PTFs) while offering a SQL-native, dbt-integrated platform for data science and AI teams.

Financial institutions must process fraud detection in real time without sacrificing security or uptime. Confluent Cloud leverages Kafka and Flink to deliver a secure, compliant, and highly resilient data streaming platform that stops fraud in-flight while meeting strict financial regulations.

Traditional governance tools fail to protect data in motion as companies shift to real-time streaming. Confluent’s Stream Governance suite solves this by providing specialized tracking, schema enforcement, and advanced encryption. This embeds security and compliance directly into the live data flow.

The dbt-confluent adapter brings dbt's familiar development workflow to Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink, enabling data engineers to build, test, and deploy streaming SQL pipelines with the tools they already know.

Confluent Cloud’s Q2 ‘26 launch makes AI-ready streaming accessible by delivering SQL-based workflows via the dbt adapter for Flink, enhanced developer tooling with managed MCP server and Agent Skills, production-grade AI solutions through Streaming Agents and Real-Time Context Engine, and more.

Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: enhanced querying with Real-Time Context Engine, PII detection, sentiment analysis, and support for TimesFM, Anthropic, and Fireworks AI models.

Confluent's architectural approach to digital sovereignty for real-time streaming, showcasing our deployment spectrum, zero-access guarantees, and open-source foundation

Confluent Tableflow simplifies the process of feeding data lakes and lakehouses by turning Kafka topics directly into analytics-ready Iceberg or Delta Lake tables, eliminating complex traditional ETL stacks leading to 30%–50% lower total ingestion costs.

This blog post introduces KCP integration with Gateway, which automates Kafka client cutover by routing traffic through an auth-translating proxy and orchestrating group-based, offset-safe migrations to Confluent Cloud with just a few CLI commands.

At Confluent, our mission is to provide the world’s most secure and scalable data streaming platform. As cryptographic standards evolve to meet the challenges of the future, we are committed to ensuring your data remains protected against emerging threats—including the eventual development of Cr...

Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: A2A integration, multivariate anomaly detection, vector search for Cosmos DB and S3 Vectors, Private Link, and MCP support.

Learn how to migrate to Confluent Cloud in hours using Confluent’s open source Kafka Copy Paste tool. Get an in-depth introduction to the KCP tool and a walk-through of the four steps of migrating from MSK to Confluent Cloud using the tool.