Confluent Cloud Release Notes¶

This page contains the latest release notes for features and updates to Confluent Cloud.

January 28, 2021¶

Microsoft Azure marketplace enhanced integration is in GA for customers

The change allows customers to use their Azure AD account to login (SSO) to Confluent Cloud, and there’s no need for a separate sign up.

Self-serve provisioning UI and CLI for ksqlDB applications

New self-serve provisioning UI and CLI for ksqlDB apps that enables providing your own API Key. You can specify the access for your ksqlDB application:

With Global access, you don’t need to configure ACLs at all, and you can begin writing queries immediately.
With Granular access, you can configure ACLS in the UI.

For more information, see Confluent Cloud ksqlDB Quick Start.

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Azure Functions Sink GA

This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters on Azure. For more information, see Azure Functions Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Google Functions Sink GA

This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters on GCP. For more information, see Google Cloud Functions Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Manage lifecycle for your fully-managed connectors using an API

You can now manage the lifecycle for your fully-managed connectors by API. For more information, see the Confluent Cloud Connector API docs.

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud MongoDB Atlas Source Connector now supports BSON

The fully-managed Confluent Cloud MongoDB Atlas Source Connector now supports BSON as an input message format, along with Avro, JSON, JSON_SR (JSON schema), and Protobuf. The connector also now supports an option to fetch a document change only and an option to fetch a full document when a subset of records is updated. For more information, see MongoDB Atlas Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud MongoDB Atlas Sink Connector now supports BSON

The fully-managed Confluent Cloud MongoDB Atlas Sink Connector now supports BSON as an input message format, along with Avro, JSON, JSON_SR (JSON schema), and Protobuf. For more information, see MongoDB Atlas Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

December 16, 2020¶

ksqlDB version 0.14.0 now available in Confluent Cloud: ksqlDB version 0.14.0 provides more advanced pull query expressions (WHERE k IN (...)), incremental schema evolution (ALTER), variable substitution (${foo}), and more key formats.

December 1, 2020¶

Infinite storage for Standard and Dedicated clusters on AWS

All new and existing Standard and Dedicated clusters on AWS now support infinite storage. This means there is no maximum size limit for the amount of data that can be stored on the cluster. There is no price change for clusters with infinite storage.

For more information, see Confluent Cloud Cluster Types.

November 20, 2020¶

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Elasticsearch Service Sink GA: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters on AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see Elasticsearch Service Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Sink GA: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters on Azure. For more information, see Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Google Cloud Functions Sink Preview: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters on GCP. For more information, see Google Cloud Functions Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

October 23, 2020¶

ksqlDB version 0.13.0 now available in Confluent Cloud: Pull queries are now available as a preview feature for all Confluent Cloud ksqlDB users.

September 28, 2020¶

ksqlDB version 0.12.0 now available in Confluent Cloud: For more information, see the 0.12.0 changelog.

September 25, 2020¶

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Amazon Redshift Sink GA: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS. For more information, see Amazon Redshift Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Microsoft SQL Server Source GA: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see Microsoft SQL Server Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Oracle DB Source GA: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see Oracle Database Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Snowflake Sink GA: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see Oracle Database Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Azure Functions Sink Preview: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS. For more information, see Azure Functions Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud MySQL Sink Preview: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see MySQL Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

September 11, 2020¶

MySQL Source GA: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see MySQL Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.
PostgreSQL Source GA: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see PostgreSQL Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud AWS Lambda Sink Preview: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS. For more information, see AWS Lambda Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Salesforce CDC Source Preview: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see Salesforce CDC Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.

September 3, 2020¶

Updated Schemas UI + Schema Registry settings: Customers can now see the list of schemas stored in Schema Registry, irrespective of the subject naming strategy applied, on the Schemas section in the Confluent Cloud UI. Additionally, Schemas Registry Allowed Usage, Schemas Registry API access, and Schemas Registry compatibility configuration are moved to the Settings section in the Environment the Schema Registry was created.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Microsoft SQL Server Sink Preview: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see Microsoft SQL Server Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud PostgreSQL Sink Preview: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see PostgreSQL Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud MySQL CDC Source (Debezium) Preview: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see MySQL CDC Source (Debezium) Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Microsoft SQL Server CDC Source (Debezium) Preview: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see Microsoft SQL Server CDC Source (Debezium) Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud PostgreSQL CDC Source Connector (Debezium) Preview: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see PostgreSQL CDC Source Connector (Debezium) for Confluent Cloud.

September 1, 2020¶

Improvements to Confluent Cloud ksqlDB handling of authorization by using bearer tokens.

August 13, 2020¶

Early access for Custom Dedicated Cluster settings: You can now modify the following Dedicated cluster settings in this limited Early Access: auto topic creation, allowed cipher suites, and default topic partitions and retention. For more information, see Custom broker / cluster settings for Dedicated clusters only.

August 3, 2020¶

Azure VPC Peering self-serve provisioning via Confluent Cloud web UI: Customers with annual commitments on usage-based billing plans can now provision new dedicated clusters on Azure with VPC Peering. For more information, see Networking in Confluent Cloud for Azure.
ksqlDB version 0.11.0 now available in Confluent Cloud.: For more information, see the 0.11.0 changelog.

July 31, 2020¶

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Datagen Source GA

This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see Datagen Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Feature enhancements for Fully-managed connectors

Protobuf and JSON Schema support for Confluent Cloud connectors.
Compression support for the Amazon S3 sink connector. For more information, see Amazon S3 Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

July 15, 2020¶

AWS Marketplace Commits and Pay-as-you-go

Amazon Web Services customers can now sign up for a self-serve Pay-as-you-go account or Confluent Cloud annual commitments through the AWS Marketplace. With Confluent Cloud annual commitments you can use your AWS commit towards usage-based consumption of Confluent Cloud. For more information, see:

July 14, 2020¶

Support for Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) on AWS dedicated clusters

New dedicated clusters only.
Supports AWS Key Management Service (KMS) only.
Support for automatic key rotation. No support for manual key rotation.

For more information, see Encrypt Confluent Cloud clusters using self-managed keys.

June 25, 2020¶

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Azure Event Hubs Source GA

This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see Azure Event Hubs Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Snowflake Sink Preview

This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see Snowflake Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Elasticsearch Sink Preview

This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For more information, see Elasticsearch Service Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Amazon S3 Sink Improvements

Additional properties to support building a time-based directory structure for data stored in S3. For more information, see Amazon S3 Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Hard-delete schemas in Schema Registry

The Schema Registry API now supports permanent schema deletes with ?permanent=true on the HTTP DELETE call.

Support for schema references for Avro and JSON Schema in Schema Registry

Avro and JSON Schema can now make references to external schemas and evolve those independently (Protobuf already supports references). Schema references are a means of modularizing a schema and its dependencies.

Functionality from ksqlDB 0.9.0 and 0.10.0 is now available in Confluent Cloud

Support for multi-way joins.
New syntax for specifying row keys.
Many new builtin functions.

June 18, 2020¶

Annual Commitment Users on GCP Can Provision Dedicated Clusters with VPC Peering: Customers with annual commitments on usage-based billing plans can now provision new dedicated clusters on Google Cloud Platform with VPC Peering through the Confluent Cloud UI. For more information, see Networking in Confluent Cloud for GCP.

June 10, 2020¶

Data flow: Data flow is now GA. This feature provides a visual representation of the data flow paths (edges) between producers, topics, and consumers within a cluster. For more information see Data Flow.
GCP Marketplace Commits: Google Cloud Platform customers can now sign up for Confluent Cloud annual commitments using the GCP marketplace and utilize their GCP commit towards usage-based consumption of Confluent Cloud. For more information, see Get Started with Confluent Cloud on the GCP Marketplace with Commitments.

June 5, 2020¶

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Kinesis Source GA: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS. For more information, see Amazon Kinesis Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Annual Commitment Users on AWS Can Provision Dedicated Clusters with VPC Peering: Customers with annual commitments on usage-based billing plans can now provision new dedicated clusters on Amazon Web Services with VPC Peering through the Confluent Cloud UI. For more information, see Configure a Confluent Cloud Network Peering Connection for AWS.

May 27, 2020¶

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Google BigQuery Sink GA: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in Google Cloud Platform. For more information, see Google BigQuery Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Google Cloud Pub/Sub Source GA: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. For more information, see Google Pub/Sub Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud MongoDB Source Preview: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. For more information, see MongoDB Atlas Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud MongoDB Sink Preview: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. For more information, see MongoDB Atlas Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Confluent Cloud Metrics API: Confluent Cloud Metrics API now serves metrics for records sent and received for clusters, topics, and partitions along with cluster level partition count. For more information, see Confluent Cloud Metrics API.

May 14, 2020¶

Cluster Level Metrics in the Confluent Cloud UI: View your time-series graphs of your Apache Kafka® cluster usage. This includes your ingress, egress, storage, and partition count to allow you to monitor your usage over time.
Annual Commitment Users Can Expand Dedicated Clusters: Customers with annual commitments on usage-based billing plans can now expand their dedicated clusters through the Confluent Cloud UI. For more information, see Expand a Dedicated Kafka Cluster in Confluent Cloud.

April 23, 2020¶

Usage-based billing with commits

Usage-based billing with commits is now available for customers on the Azure Marketplace. You can now commit a spend, get a discount, and transact through the Azure Marketplace to get started with Confluent Cloud. For more information, see Get Started with Confluent Cloud on the Azure Marketplace with Commitments.

Support for Protocol Buffers and JSON Schema in Confluent Cloud

Support for Protocol Buffers and JSON Schema has been added in Schema Registry and throughout Confluent Cloud, including ksqlDB, Kafka Streams and Kafka Clients. For more information, see Avro, JSON, and Protobuf Supported Formats and Extensibility.

Confluent Cloud CLI General Availability

The Confluent Cloud CLI has been promoted to general availability with features that now enable use in a scripted environment:

Machine readable JSON or YAML output through the -o flag on commands with return values.
Long-lived authentication through ccloud login --save.

For more information, see Confluent Cloud command reference.

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Google Cloud Spanner Sink Preview

This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in Google Cloud Platform. For more information, see Google Cloud Spanner Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Google Cloud Dataproc Sink Preview

This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in Google Cloud Platform. For more information, see Google Cloud Dataproc Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Azure Event Hubs Source Preview

This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. For more information, see Azure Event Hubs Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Sink Preview

This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in Microsoft Azure. For more information, see Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Amazon Redshift Sink Preview

This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in Amazon Web Services. For more information, see Amazon Redshift Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

April 6, 2020¶

Confluent Cloud Cluster Tiers: Basic, Standard, Dedicated

Confluent Cloud now offers three cluster tiers: Basic, Standard, and Dedicated.

Basic clusters are billed for ingress, egress, and storage.
Standard clusters are billed an hourly base price of $1.50 USD per hour, in addition to usage-based charges.
Dedicated clusters are available for customers with annual commitments, which you can purchase from Confluent. Existing standard clusters will remain unchanged through March 31, 2021, after which any existing single-zone clusters will be migrated to basic, and multi-zone clusters will be migrated to standard.

For more information, see Confluent Cloud Cluster Types.

Annual Commitment Users Can Provision Dedicated Clusters

Customers with annual commitments on usage-based billing plans can now provision new dedicated clusters with internet endpoints through the Confluent Cloud UI. For more information, see Confluent Cloud Cluster Types.

Confluent Cloud ksqlDB Production Availability

Confluent Cloud ksqlDB is now production available for all users on usage-based billing plans. For more information on how to get started, see Confluent Cloud ksqlDB Quick Start.

March 31, 2020¶

Confluent Cloud Metrics API GA: The Confluent Cloud Metrics API is now GA with new metrics for connection counts and request rates. It is enabled for all newly provisioned clusters and is rolling out to existing clusters in AWS, GCP, and Azure at this time. For more information, see Confluent Cloud Metrics API.
Confluent Cloud Azure Blob Storage Sink GA: Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Azure Blob Storage Sink is now GA. For more information, see Azure Blob Storage Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

February 18, 2020¶

Consumption-based Self-serve Confluent Cloud on the Azure Marketplace: With this release, you can now find consumption-based self-serve Confluent Cloud offering on the Azure Marketplace. You can sign up to use Confluent Cloud by utilizing your Azure spend. For more information, see Get Started with Confluent Cloud on the Azure Marketplace with Pay As You Go and the blog post.

January 24, 2020¶

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Oracle Database Source Preview: This feature is launched for your Apache Kafka® clusters in Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. For more information, see Oracle Database Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Microsoft SQL Server Source Preview: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, GCP, and Azure. For more information, see Microsoft SQL Server Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.
Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Google Cloud Pub/Sub Source Preview: This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, GCP, and Azure. For more information, see Google Pub/Sub Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.

January 2, 2020¶

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud GCS Connector (Sink) GA: For more information, see Google Cloud Storage Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

December 20, 2019¶

SAML/SSO Production Availability

This feature enables customers to utilize their Identity provider to centrally manage user login information.
This feature supports all the Identity Providers with SAML 2.0 including: Okta, Ping, OneLogin, Microsoft Active Directory
This feature is available on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
For more information, see the documentation.

Confluent Cloud Metrics API Preview

This feature is available for Apache Kafka® clusters in AWS, GCP, and Azure. For more information, see Confluent Cloud Metrics API.

December 12, 2019¶

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud PostgreSQL Source Preview

This feature is launched for your Apache Kafka® clusters in AWS, GCP, and Azure. For more information, see PostgreSQL Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud MySQL Source Preview

This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS, GCP, and Azure. For more information, see MySQL Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Kinesis Source Preview

This feature is launched for your Kafka clusters in AWS. For more information, see Amazon Kinesis Source Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Other improvements

The Kafka cluster ID is now shown in the Cluster Settings page. This makes it easier for you to connect clients to your clusters.
The Clients tab in CLI & Client Configuration page now shows client configurations for 12 different clients, with links to example code for each type of client.

November 15, 2019¶

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Google BigQuery Connector (Sink) Preview

For more information, see Google BigQuery Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Connector improvements

Avro format support has been added to Confluent Cloud Google Cloud Storage Connector and Azure Blob Storage Connector.
You can increase connect tasks to get a better performance and handle more partitions.

Support plan update

Support plan downgrades now have certain restrictions in place. When you purchase a support plan, you will retain the support plan and be charged for it for the current and potentially next billing cycle. For more information, see Support
A Confluent Community self-serve offering is now available from the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) marketplace. GCP customers can now use their GCP committed expenditure for Confluent Cloud standard clusters. See the GCP marketplace offering for details.

October 31, 2019¶

Higher availability with multi-zone clusters

You can now choose between single or multiple availability zones when creating new Confluent Cloud clusters. If you select multiple availability zones, data in the cluster will be spread across multiple cloud availability zones. This provides higher availability in the case of a zonal outage. Prices may differ between single and multiple availability zone configurations. For more details about cloud provider availability zones:

Use all UI features with VPC-peered clusters

You can now use the Confluent Cloud web UI for ksqlDB stream processing, topic management, and consumer lag monitoring on VPC peered clusters. You must configure your network to route and proxy the necessary requests between the UI and your cluster. For more details about setting this up, see Networking in Confluent Cloud.

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Azure Blob Storage Connector (Sink) Preview

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud Azure Blob Storage Connector (Sink) available in Preview. For more information, see Azure Blob Storage Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Use Confluent Cloud in more regions

Confluent Cloud is now available in:

Azure useast2 (Virginia)
GCP asia-southeast1 (Singapore)

September 27, 2019¶

Confluent Cloud Schema Registry General Availability: Now available on Microsoft Azure and in multiple geographical regions (US, Europe, and APAC).

August 30, 2019¶

Microsoft Azure General Availability

Confluent Cloud is now generally available on Microsoft Azure in:

Azure southeastasia (Singapore)
Azure westus2 (Washington)
Azure westeurope (Netherlands)

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud S3 Connector (Sink) Production Availability.

For more information, see Amazon S3 Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Fully-managed Confluent Cloud GCS Connector (Sink) Preview

For more information, see Google Cloud Storage Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud.

Use Confluent Cloud in more regions

Confluent Cloud is now available in:

AWS ap-northeast-1 (Tokyo)
AWS ap-south-1 (Mumbai)
AWS ap-southeast-1 (Singapore)
GCP asia-northeast1 (Tokyo)
GCP asia-southeast1 (Singapore)
GCP europe-west4 (Netherlands)

August 16, 2019¶

Support: You can now purchase support for Confluent Cloud through the global menu in the web interface. For plan details and pricing, see Confluent Cloud Support.
Service Level Agreement (SLA): With this release, the SLA for Confluent Cloud is updated. An uptime SLA is now available for new clusters created in some regions; the SLA is displayed in the cluster creation and cluster details UI if it is available. See Confluent Cloud SLA for details.
Schema Registry: Confluent Cloud Schema Registry is now generally available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and in multiple geographical regions (US, Europe, and APAC). To get started, see Quick Start for Schema Management on Confluent Cloud.

August 1, 2019¶

VPC peering to multiple customer VPCs: You can now peer one Dedicated cluster with up to five VPCs within the same region and cloud provider. This lets you connect applications across multiple networks using Confluent Cloud.
AWS Transit Gateway: You can now link a Dedicated cluster running in AWS to an AWS Transit Gateway. Transit Gateway allows transitive routing and supports a variety of AWS networking services, which makes it possible to connect clients in many networks, both in the cloud and on-premises, to Confluent Cloud.

June 25, 2019¶

Apache Kafka® 2.3 released.: All Confluent Cloud clusters have been automatically upgraded. For more information, see https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.3.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html.

May 29, 2019¶

CLI update: The Confluent Cloud CLI now supports ACLs and service accounts.

May 13, 2019¶

Capacity increase: All Confluent Cloud self-serve clusters can now support peak throughput up to 100 MBps write and 100 MBps read, and can store up to 5 TB of data.
ksqlDB Preview: Fully managed KSQL is available in Preview.

May 7, 2019¶

S3 Connector Preview: Fully managed AWS S3 Sink Connector is available in Preview.

May 1, 2019¶

Consumption-based pricing: Confluent Cloud now offers consumption-based pricing.
Name change: Confluent Cloud Professional is now simply called Confluent Cloud. For more information, see https://www.confluent.io/blog/introducing-cloud-native-experience-for-apache-kafka-in-confluent-cloud.

April 5, 2019¶

Schema edit UI: View and edit schemas in the Topic Management UI.

March 26, 2019¶

Apache Kafka® 2.2 released.: All Confluent Cloud clusters have been automatically upgraded. For more information, see https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.2.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html.

March 13, 2019¶

Schema Registry Preview: Schema Registry is now available in Preview.

February 27, 2019¶

Topic management UI: You can now see the actual topics, configurations, and events on your cluster from the Confluent Cloud web interface. For details, see Manage Topics in Confluent Cloud.
Consumer lag: You can now see how your consumer groups are managing with the traffic on your cluster from the Confluent Cloud web interface. For details, see Monitor Consumer Lag.

Important

These features are not yet available for customers using VPC peering.

January 22, 2019¶

UI navigation update: The UI has been updated to show you more information with fewer clicks, and to logically group common actions. Many administrative actions and support links are always available by clicking on your name in the upper-right corner. These options were previously available in the navigation bar and in the cluster management UI. The Quick Start for Apache Kafka using Confluent Cloud and related documentation is updated to reflect these changes.
Environment overview: Now you can see provisioned capacity and usage data for all your clusters on the new Environment Overview page. Usage data was previously available in a dedicated Activity page for each cluster.
Parameter changes: In the past, Confluent Cloud allowed users to configure a wide range of topic level configuration parameters. However, some of these parameters aren’t necessary when using a fully managed service. Confluent Cloud now ignores these parameters. Existing users should see no change, as it has been verified that these parameters were never used in practice. For consistency, some configuration parameters in the describe topics/configuration APIs are now read-only.