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Confluent Platform is the self-managed deployment of our data streaming platform, powered by a cloud-native, enterprise-grade distribution of Apache Kafka®.
Like our cloud deployment, Confluent Platform fully equips you to streamline operations, cut costs, and unlock data value. But it also ensures you have complete control and customization when and where you need it. See how we make self-managed Kafka deployments work for you.
When you're deploying on-premises, at the edge, or across hybrid cloud environments, self-managing Kafka isn’t optional. But that doesn’t mean you have to scale, secure, and act on real-time data streams the hard way.
Confluent Platform gives you cloud-native scalability, DevOps automation, and robust security features that make Kafka operations easier and more cost-efficient. Plus, you’ll have pre-built Kafka connectors, built-in governance, and advanced stream processing capabilities to unlock new use cases faster.
Vietnam's largest technological ecosystem, One Mount originally built its financial services solutions on legacy technology. Now, One Mount self-manages Confluent Platform on Google Cloud, gaining greater flexibility and customization for its entire portfolio.
Globe Group chose Confluent Platform to migrate to an event-driven architecture. When the time was right, Globe Group moved workloads from Confluent Platform to Confluent Cloud in AWS, further reducing infrastructure spend and offloading day-to-day operations.
The 8x8 team needed a way to rapidly and cost-effectively add new customers to its contact center solution. Choosing Confluent gave their architecture reliable compliance, security, and resiliency and unlocked predictive analytics their customers can trust.
With Confluent Platform, you can have the best of both worlds: cloud-native architecture and automated orchestration combined with the control and choice of self-managed deployments.
Take advantage of powerful automation and orchestration features like Confluent for Kubernetes and Ansible Playbooks, Confluent Replicator and Cluster Linking for data syncing and replication, and Auto Data Balancer for optimized resource utilization.
Simplify Kafka Management With Self-Balancing Clusters
Confluent Platform's Self-Balancing Clusters automate partition distribution across your Kafka brokers. This significantly reduces your operational burden so you can spend less time on manual rebalancing and focus on building with Kafka instead of full-time management.
Automate Day-2 Operations With Confluent for Kubernetes
Confluent for Kubernetes automates the complex Day-2 operations of your Kafka deployments, streamlining tasks like scaling, upgrades, and disaster recovery. This cloud-native operator significantly reduces operational overhead and minimizes human error.
Optimize Resource Utilization With Tiered Storage
Confluent Platform simplifies setup for Tiered Storage, making it easier and faster for you to automate offloading of latency-insentive workloads to cost-effective object storage. Combined with Self-Balancing Clusters, this allowsConfluent Platform to significantly reduces your operational costs.
Streamline Monitoring With Control Center
Control Center is a graphical UI for managing Kafka operations and data pipelines. With our 2025 performance and UX improvements, you can scale up to 400K partitions, refresh end-to-end metrics within 2-3 minutes, and cut start-up times to just 1 minute.
Confluent Platform doesn’t just give you the tools to streamline Kafka operations and reduce your Kafka costs—it also equips your organization to transition away from fragile, point-to-point integrations.
This complete data streaming platform equips you to secure data streams and democratize access to reliable, high-quality real-time data. See how its enterprise-grade capabilities help you future-proof your data architecture and unlock analytics and AI use cases.
Secure Your Workloads, Wherever They Live
Ensure your data is accessible only to authorized users and applications with granular role-based access control and access control lists. And use OAuth/OIDC authentication via leading identity providers to integrate your existing security infrastructure, with TLS and mTLS encryption for data in transit.
Easily Integrate Existing Data Systems With Pre-Built Connectors
Easily integrate your existing data systems with Confluent Platform's extensive library of pre-built connectors, enabling seamless data flow between Kafka and 120+ data sources or sinks.
Govern Data to Streamline Data Integration, Processing, and Reuse
Govern your data streams with Schema Registry, a centralized repository that enforces data contracts, manages schema evolution with compatibility checks, and ensures data quality and compatibility across your Kafka ecosystem.
Filter, Enrich & Query Data With Confluent Platform for Apache Flink®
Confluent Platform for Apache Flink® empowers you to build powerful, real-time data applications by providing a robust, scalable engine for continuous data processing. Use its low-latency, high-throughput capabilities to transform, enrich, and analyze your data streams and deliver immediate insights.
Use the data streaming platform wherever your data lives—self-managed in on-premises and private cloud environments, fully managed on any public cloud with Confluent Cloud, or managed within your own cloud account via WarpStream.
And you can integrate data across your Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud clusters with Cluster Linking. We provide a unified data plane that eliminates the need for point-to-point connections and data synchronization for:
For on-prem Kafka use cases, download Confluent Platform—the Kafka distribution for enterprises. Use its built-in management, integration, governance, and processing features for free on a single broker or for 30 days on unlimited brokers.


