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Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®
Why Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink?
Data streaming reimagines how data is made available
within an organization, continuously ingesting,
processing, governing, and sharing data as a product
that is instantly available, usable, and trustworthy
everywhere. Stream processing plays a critical role in
the infrastructure stack for data streaming by enabling
Simple, Serverless Stream developers to filter, join, aggregate, and transform
data on-the-fly, making it more usable for downstream
Processing systems and applications.
Stream processing acts as the compute layer for Apache Traditional batch-oriented processing downstream
Kafka®, enabling teams to combine and reshape their of Kafka cannot achieve the same outcomes. It leads
data streams in-flight to power real-time applications to applications built on stale and inconsistent data,
and pipelines. Apache Flink® is the stream processor of requiring expensive, inefficient, and redundant
choice for many of the world’s largest real-time systems processing to clean and enrich data for each
and is used by innovative companies like AirBnB, downstream system and application. Although Apache
Neflix, and Uber to support mission-critical streaming Flink is widely recognized for its performance and rich
workloads. feature set among stream processing frameworks, self-
managing Flink (like Kafka) can be challenging due to
With Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink, customers can
operational complexity, a steep learning curve, and high
easily build high-quality, reusable data streams with the
costs for in-house support.
industry’s only cloud-native, serverless Apache Flink
service, fully integrated with Apache Kafka on Confluent Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink offers a cloud-native,
Cloud across all three major clouds. serverless Flink service for processing data in-flight
and creating high-quality, reusable streams in real time.
In addition, Confluent Platform for Apache Flink®, now
Effortlessly filter, join, and enrich data streams with Flink,
generally available, allows you to easily manage on-prem
the industry-leading stream processing framework,
Flink workloads at any scale while benefiting from expert
at any scale with zero ops burden, and experience
long-term support from the world’s foremost Kafka and
Kafka and Flink as a unified platform with integrated
Flink specialists.
monitoring, security, and governance.
Effortlessly filter, join, and enrich your data
streams with Flink, the de facto standard for
stream processing
Enable high-performance and efficient
stream processing at any scale, without any
operational burden
Experience Apache Kafka and Apache Flink
seamlessly integrated as a complete, unified
platform
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Product Datasheet | Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®
Effortlessly filter, join, and enrich your Experience Apache Kafka and Apache
data streams with Flink, the de facto Flink seamlessly integrated as a
standard for stream processing complete, unified platform
Real-time Processing Enterprise-grade Security
Power low-latency applications and pipelines that react Secure stream processing with built-in identity and
to real-time events and provide timely insights access management, RBAC, and audit logs
Data Reusability Stream Governance
Share consistent and reusable data streams widely Define and enforce universal data standards that
with downstream applications and systems enable scalable data compatibility
Data Enrichment Monitoring
Curate, filter, and augment data on-the-fly with Ensure Flink applications run reliably, efficiently, and
additional context to improve completeness, accuracy, are easy to maintain
and compliance
Connectors
Efficiency Connect to and from any app and system with 120+
Improve resource utilization and cost-effectiveness by pre-built connectors.
avoiding redundant processing across silos
Enable high-performance and efficient
stream processing at any scale, without
any operational burden
Fully Managed “Stream processing is critical for identifying and
Easily develop Flink applications with a serverless,
protecting against security risk in real time. With
SaaS-based experience instantly available and without
ops burden Confluent’s fully managed Flink offering, we
can access, aggregate, and enrich data from
Elastic Scalability IoT sensors, smart cameras, and Wi-Fi analytics,
Automatically scale up or down to meet the demands of
to swiftly take action on potential threats in
the most complex workloads without overprovisioning
real time, such as intrusion detection. This
Infrastructure-as-code enables us to process sensor data as soon as
Automate Flink deployment on Kubernetes for private the events occur, allowing for faster detection
cloud and on-prem workloads and response to security incidents without any
added operational burden.”
Continuous Updates
Build using always up-to-date platform with automated Vinay Krishna Patnana | Engineering Manager at Cisco Meraki
upgrades
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