More Scale and Cost Savings for your Kafka Clusters - the latest in Confluent Cloud

Join David Marsh, Senior Technical Marketing Manager, for a tour of the latest updates to Confluent Cloud that make running Kafka at scale easier and more cost-effective. Updates include: Increasing the capacity limit to 32 eCKUs for Enterprise clusters to meet the scaling needs of the most demanding workloads Supporting a maximum eCKU configuration so teams can effectively manage costs and set budget guardrails for our elastically scaling clusters Enforcing fair usage on shared clusters and protecting capacity with client quotas for Enterprise and Freight clusters Reducing cross-zone networking costs with fetch-from-follower for Enterprise clusters. If you're already using Confluent Cloud, log in to try these new features on your existing clusters. And if you’re looking to get started, sign up here: https://www.confluent.io/get-started/ LEARN MORE ► Blog: https://www.confluent.io/blog/2026-q1-confluent-cloud-launch/ ► Docs (Client quotas): https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/clusters/client-quotas.html ► Docs (Fetch-from-follower): https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/networking/fetch-from-follower.html#optimize-egress-costs-with-follower-fetching-on-ccloud-using-aws-vpc-peering ABOUT Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Confluent’s cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion – designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital front-end customer experiences and transitioning to sophisticated, real-time, software-driven backend operations. To learn more, please visit https://www.confluent.io/. #confluent #confluentcloud #apachekafka #kafka