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Setting up a reliable cloud networking for your Apache Kafka® infrastructure can be complex. There are many factors to consider—cost, security, scalability, and availability. With immense experience building cloud-native Kafka solutions on Confluent Cloud, Justin Lee (Principal Solutions Engineer, Enterprise Solutions Engineering, Confluent) and Dennis Wittekind (Customer Success Technical Architect, Customer Success Engineering, Confluent) talk about the different networking options on Confluent Cloud, including AWS Transit Gateway, AWS, and Azure Private Link, and discuss when and why you might choose one over the other.
In order to build a secure cloud-native Kafka network, you need to consider information security and compliance requirements. These requirements may vary depending on your industry, location, and regulatory environment. For example, in financial organizations, transaction data or personal identifiable information (PII) may not be accessible over the internet. In this case, your network architecture may require private networking, which means you have to choose between private endpoints or a peering connection between your infrastructure and your Kafka clusters in the cloud.
What are the differences between different networking solutions? Dennis and Justin talk about some of the benefits and drawbacks of different network architectures. For example, Transit Gateways offered by AWS are often a good fit for organizations with large, disparate network architectures, while Private Link is sometimes preferred for its security benefits. We also discuss the management overhead involved in administering different network architectures.
Dennis and Justin also highlight their recently launched course on Confluent Developer—the Confluent Cloud Networking course. This hands-on course covers basic networking and cloud computing concepts that will offer support for you to get a clearer picture of the configurations and collaborate with the networking teams.
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Setting up a reliable cloud networking for your Apache Kafka® infrastructure can be complex. There are many factors to consider—cost, security, scalability, and availability. With immense experience building cloud-native Kafka solutions on Confluent Cloud, Justin Lee (Principal Solutions Engineer, Enterprise Solutions Engineering, Confluent) and Dennis Wittekind (Customer Success Technical Architect, Customer Success Engineering, Confluent) talk about the different networking options on Confluent Cloud, including AWS Transit Gateway, AWS, and Azure Private Link, and discuss when and why you might choose one over the other.
In order to build a secure cloud-native Kafka network, you need to consider information security and compliance requirements. These requirements may vary depending on your industry, location, and regulatory environment. For example, in financial organizations, transaction data or personal identifiable information (PII) may not be accessible over the internet. In this case, your network architecture may require private networking, which means you have to choose between private endpoints or a peering connection between your infrastructure and your Kafka clusters in the cloud.
What are the differences between different networking solutions? Dennis and Justin talk about some of the benefits and drawbacks of different network architectures. For example, Transit Gateways offered by AWS are often a good fit for organizations with large, disparate network architectures, while Private Link is sometimes preferred for its security benefits. We also discuss the management overhead involved in administering different network architectures.
Dennis and Justin also highlight their recently launched course on Confluent Developer—the Confluent Cloud Networking course. This hands-on course covers basic networking and cloud computing concepts that will offer support for you to get a clearer picture of the configurations and collaborate with the networking teams.
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