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STAR Registry Listing for

Confluent Cloud

Founded in 2013 by the Cloud Security Alliance, the Security Trust Assurance and Risk (STAR) registry encompasses key principles of transparency, rigorous auditing, and cloud security and privacy best practices.

Confluent Cloud

Scale with cloud-native agility:
- Scale elastically between 0 - 100 MBps
- No need to size or provision clusters
- Pay only for what you actually stream
- Start streaming in minutes

Run mission-critical enterprise apps:
- Guarantee 99.95% uptime SLA
- Scale to 10s of GBps with planned capacity
- Achieve sub 30 ms latency at scale
- Enterprise-grade security & compliance

Do more with Apache Kafka:
- Ensure data compatibility with fully-managed Schema Registry
- Real-time processing with fully-managed KSQL
- Integrate all your systems quickly with Kafka connectors

Stream across hybrid and multi-clouds:
- Build a persistent bridge from on-premises to cloud with hybrid Kafka service
- Stream across public clouds for multi-cloud data pipelines

Information about Confluent Cloud
Listed Since: 08/13/2020
Last Updated: 06/17/2024

STAR Level 1

Self-Assessment & Partner-Provided

Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire v4.0.2

CAIQ 4.0.2 Self-assessment
Offers an industry-accepted way to document what security controls exist in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services. It provides a set of Yes/No questions a cloud consumer and cloud auditor may wish to ask of a cloud provider to ascertain their compliance to the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM).

STAR Level 2

Third-Party Audit

Organizations looking for a third-party audit can choose from one or more of the security and privacy audits and certifications.

Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire v3.0.1

STAR Attestation
Provides guidelines for CPAs to conduct SOC 2 engagements using criteria from the AICPA (Trust Service Principles, AT 101) and the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix.