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Confluent, Inc., the leading data streaming platform, announced a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). Confluent and AWS have agreed to collaborate on go-to-market activities over the next five years to assist businesses to accelerate their cloud adoption using real-time data.
“To thrive in the modern world, organisations must tap into their data as it’s created,” said Erica Schultz, President of Field Operations, Confluent. “At the same time, they have more data than ever and it is spread across every facet of their business. Through our collaboration with AWS - which is significantly enhanced through this new agreement - we’re making it easier for customers to unlock data in motion everywhere so they can build real-time applications that enable analytical and operational workloads, across cloud and hybrid environments.”
“The strength of our collaboration with Confluent is amplified by our focus on jointly working backwards from customer needs,” said Stephen Orban, General Manager, AWS Marketplace and Control Services, AWS. “Our expanded strategic collaboration allows customers to migrate real-time streaming data workloads to the cloud faster with Confluent Cloud on AWS.”
As they migrate to the cloud, businesses want to speed digital efforts and reduce operating costs. Organisations will need a cloud-native platform for data in motion to make these projects a success. Data infrastructure can collect and handle a constant flow of data from any source across the firm, allowing teams to leverage relevant data to innovate more quickly. Confluent and AWS have strengthened their partnership, allowing businesses to use real-time data to power their AWS services and improve backend operations.
“Because of the dynamic nature of the travel industry, we need to build our apps on modern infrastructure that is extremely scalable, highly available, and simple to use,” said Anush Kumar, Vice President of Intelligent Services, Expedia Group. “Confluent Cloud on AWS enabled us to handle 40X traffic spikes with no downtime, and deliver a more scalable, easy to manage and operate event-driven platform that significantly improved how we communicate with customers.”
“Every incremental data topic that we publish or consume with Confluent increases our ability to decouple platforms and increase our transformation velocity," said Jeff Renz, Vice President, Product Management & Technology, Amway. “With Confluent and AWS, we are getting more value out of our data because it’s moving seamlessly between applications, not waiting in a database to be processed in batch."
“Confluent and AWS helped us modernise our legacy systems and achieve a level of scale that was not possible before,” said Patrick Franz, Senior Director, Engineering, SunPower. “With Confluent and AWS, we have full visibility into the 6 million IOT devices in our fleet, and can make that data available in real time to build the kind of mobile apps our customers are excited about.”
Confluent Cloud is available in AWS Marketplace and runs on AWS to unify management, security, and billing. This lets companies migrate and connect data in real-time to services including Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Lambda, and more with 120+ pre-built connectors so enterprises can migrate and modernise data platforms more easily. Built on Apache Kafka®’s open source foundation, Confluent Cloud’s fully managed service completes the open source project and makes it easier to adopt data streaming, reducing time to market and helping engineers spend more time focusing on projects that differentiate their business.
“We are revolutionising the personal banking experience with a holistic, wealth-building platform made for the modern era and powered by real-time data,” said Steven Gall, Vice President of Engineering, M1 Finance. “Confluent significantly sped up our ability to deploy and run Kafka at scale and relieved us of the non-trivial duty of running and maintaining our own infrastructure. This allowed us to focus our efforts and energy entirely on helping our customers optimise their financial well-being.”
"By integrating real-time and batch data into Confluent Cloud from our ad platform, which is critical to our business, we can simplify our architecture and maintain data integrity," said Jueun Seo, Chief Technology Officer, Buzzvil. "Confluent on AWS provides a stable Kafka operating environment, and it is a cost-effective solution where we can connect to other AWS services."
"The greatest advantage is that Confluent Cloud on AWS provides an environment where you can focus purely on service development as a fully managed service, and the 30% cost reduction came to us as an additional benefit," said Brian Jeong, Tech Team Lead, ONDA. "We have built change data capture by connecting to AWS database service, and placed Confluent Cloud at the center of our service data pipeline."