Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka
GCPIntegrationFully-managed Apache Kafka clusters for real-time data pipelines, event sourcing, model scoring, messaging, and streaming analytics — Google's first-party answer to Confluent Cloud and AWS MSK, GA at Cloud Next 2025 with native VPC, IAM, and Pub/Sub integration
FluffyStack toolsAttributes
- Ga Year
- 2025
Sub-services (3)
Kafka Clusters
Managed brokers with auto-scaling and multi-zone resilience
Kafka Connect
Managed connectors for source / sink integrations
Schema Registry
Centralised schema management with Avro / Protobuf / JSON Schema
Compliance & Certifications
This service is attested for the following frameworks. Always verify with the provider before relying on a specific compliance posture.
Where this runs
Sovereign regions (2)
- T-Systems Sovereign Cloud · FrankfurtT-Systems Sovereign Cloud powered by Google Cloud
- S3NS Sovereign Cloud · ParisS3NS — Google Cloud + Thales joint venture
Commercial regions (42)
Europe (13)
- Belgium
- Finland
- Paris
- Berlin
- Frankfurt
- Milan
- Turin
- Netherlands
- Warsaw
- Madrid
- Stockholm
- Zurich
- London
North America (12)
- Montréal
- Toronto
- Querétaro
- Northern Virginia
- Columbus
- Iowa
- Dallas
- Las Vegas
- Los Angeles
- South Carolina
- Salt Lake City
- Oregon
South America (2)
- São Paulo
- Santiago
Asia (9)
- Hong Kong
- Delhi
- Mumbai
- Jakarta
- Osaka
- Tokyo
- Singapore
- Seoul
- Taiwan
Oceania (2)
- Melbourne
- Sydney
Middle East (3)
- Tel Aviv
- Doha
- Dammam
Africa (1)
- Johannesburg
Tags
Equivalent services on other platforms
Fully managed Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect service with provisioned and serverless deployment options, tiered storage, IAM-based auth, and the MSK Replicator for cross-region and cross-account cluster replication
Big data streaming platform and event ingestion service capable of millions of events per second with Kafka compatibility, Capture to Blob or Data Lake, and partition-based scaling