The document discusses Confluent Cloud networking options including connectivity through secure internet endpoints, VPC peering, PrivateLink, and AWS Transit Gateway, highlighting their uses and security features. It emphasizes the trend of enterprises leveraging cloud solutions for agility and scalability in their applications. Additionally, it provides a comparison of different cloud networking approaches like VPC peering and transit gateways across major cloud providers.

1. Confluent Cloud Networking
Rajan Sundaram
Lead Solutions Architect

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Agenda
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Cloud Networking
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Connectivity Options
Available Networking Options
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Comparison
VPC Peering, Private Link, Transit Gateway
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Network Guidelines

3. Cloud Networking
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• Enterprises turn to the cloud to drive agility, deliver
differentiation, accelerate time-to-market, and increase scale.
• The cloud model has become the standard approach to build
and deliver applications for the modern enterprise.

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Network Patterns
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Azure VNET Peering GCP VCP Peering Inter Cloud VPC Peering

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Confluent Cloud Networking
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o Internet Endpoints
o VPC Peering
o Private Link
o Transit Gateway
Confluent Cloud Connectivity Options
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Confluent Cloud Networking
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• Confluent Cloud Dedicated clusters can be
accessed through secure internet
endpoints, VPC/VNet peering, or AWS
Transit Gateway.
• All connections to Confluent Cloud are
encrypted with TLS and require
authentication using API keys, regardless
of network configuration.

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Confluent Cloud – Internet
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Confluent Cloud Kafka Cluster will only be accessible over the public internet.

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Confluent Cloud – VPC Peering
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Confluent Cloud Kafka Cluster will only be accessible via VPC Peering
Confluent Cloud Customer VPC

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Confluent Cloud – PrivateLink
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Confluent Cloud Kafka Cluster will only be accessible via PrivateLink Connections

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Confluent Cloud – Transit Gateway
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Public Cloud – Networking Comparison
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Cloud/Networking
Options
AWS AZURE GCP
Internet
VPC Peering
Private Link
Transit Gateway

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Networking
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