Confluent Investor Day Presentation Deck

Provider managed features Confluent Cloud: The Only Fully Managed, Cloud-Native Kafka Service Apache Kafka In-house development and maintenance without support Scaling Load Balancing Monitoring Partition Placement Logical Storage Broker Settings Kafka Patching JVM O/S VMs Servers Months Other Kafka Services Manual operations with basic tooling and/or support Scaling Load Balancing Monitoring Partition Placement Logical Storage Broker Settings Kafka Patching JVM O/S VMs Servers Product ease of use Weeks Confluent Cloud Fully managed, elastic, and automated product capabilities with zero overhead Scaling Load Balancing Monitoring Partition Placement Logical Storage Broker Settings Kafka Patching JVM O/S VMs Servers Days Care.com "Offloading that day-to-day burden of operations has been a huge help. A lot of overall operations-type work gets offloaded when you move to Confluent Cloud... Where we're saving time now is on the DevOps side of maintenance of all those systems - patching underlying systems or upgrading (them) - those were big things to be able to offload." You Manage Provider Managed 42

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