| Serverless: Automated, fully managed Kafka clusters with zero operations. | No | No |
| Elastic Scaling: Scale up and down from 0 to Gbps without over-provisioning infrastructure. | Yes | No |
| Tiered Storage: Cost-effectively retain data at any scale without growing compute. | Yes | No |
| High Availability: Guaranteed 99.95% uptime SLA with built-in failove | Yes | No |
| Disaster recovery: Multi-AZ | Yes | No |
| No ZooKeeper Management: Metadata management completely abstracted away. | Yes | No |
| No-Touch Patching and Upgrades: Fully automated infrastructure with zero-downtime patching and upgrades. | Yes | No |
| Apache Kafka: Distributed event streaming platform that’s become the de facto industry standard. | Yes | Yes |
| Kafka Connect: Pluggable, declarative data integration framework. | Yes | Yes |
| Kafka Streams: Client library for stream processing. | Yes | Yes |
| Java Clients: Write producer/consumer apps with Java. | Yes | Yes |
| Non-Java Clients: (C/C++, Python, Go, .NET). | Yes | No |
| REST Proxy: Access Kafka from any network-connected application. | Yes | No |
| MQTT Proxy: Access Kafka from MQTT devices and gateways. | Yes | No |
| Connectors: 120+ expert-built and tested connectors. | Yes | No |
| Flink: Simple, serverless stream processing to enrich, join, and filter data. | No | No |
| Stream Designer: Visual canvas for rapidly building streaming data pipelines extensible with SQL. | Yes | No |
| GUI to manage and monitor clusters at any scale. | Yes | No |
| Metrics API: Discover topic and cluster-level metrics, request metric values, or post queries. | Yes | No |
| Datadog / Prometheus Integration: Monitor data streams directly alongside the rest of your technology stack. | Yes | No |
| Health+: Intelligent alerts and cloud-based monitoring to ensure cluster health. | Yes | No |
| Admin REST APIs: Simplify management via RESTful interfaces for performing admin operations. | Yes | No |
| Complete, declarative API to deploy on Kubernetes. | Yes | No |
| Ansible Playbooks: Automate deployment on non-containerized environments. | Yes | No |
| Deployment through cloud marketplace | Yes | No |
| Self-Balancing Clusters: Automated partition rebalancing to optimize performance. | Yes | No |
| Access Control Lists: Authorization controls for cluster data. | Yes | Yes |
| Role-Based Access Control: Granular resource-level authorization of access across user groups. | Yes | No |
| Audit Logs: Structured and indexed logs to detect security threats & anomalies. | Yes | No |
| Secret Protection / Encryption: Encrypt all data at rest and network traffic to clients with TLS 1.2. | Yes | No |
| Bring Your Own Key: Encrypt data at rest with your own custom keys (BYOK). | No | No |
| Private Networking: VPC/VNet peering | Yes | No |
| HIPAA/GDPR/CCPA Readiness: Built-in capabilities including SOC 2/ISO 27001, GDPR/CCPA readiness, and more. | Coming Soon | No |
| Schema Registry: Central registry to ensure data compatibility. | Yes | No |
| Schema Validation: Broker-side schema validation & enforcement with topic-level granularity. | Yes | No |
| Stream Catalog: Self-service data discovery to search, classify, & organize your data streams. | Coming Soon | No |
| Stream Lineage: Understand data lineage with interactive, end-to-end mapping of your data streams. | Yes | No |
| Stream Sharing: Simple and safe way to share streaming data across organizations. | No | No |
| 99.95% Uptime SLA: Safely run mission-critical workloads with SLA covering both software & infrastructure. | Yes | No |
| Cluster Linking: Seamlessly link clusters across any environment to build hybrid & multicloud architectures. | Coming Soon | No |
| Multi-AZ / Multi-Region Clusters: Minimize downtime by running across multiple availability zones or regions. | Yes | No |
| MirrorMaker 2: Asynchronous replication based on Kafka Connect. | Yes | No |
| Replicator: Expert-built, supported, & battle-tested replication across clusters based on Kafka Connect. | Coming Soon | No |
| 24×7×365 Expert Support: Access to world’s foremost Kafka experts with over 1 million hours of experience. | Yes | No |
| Professional Services: Customized hands-on engagements to achieve your business outcomes in timely manner. | Yes | No |
| Education: Variety of training offerings to build streaming expertise across your organization. | Coming Soon | No |
