Start with a new, more tightly integrated Confluent Cloud on Google Cloud Platform. Add integration of Fivetran SaaS connectors into BigQuery’s Data Transfer Service. The result? Third-party data services with a first-party sheen.
At Google’s Cloud Next event in San Francisco, partners are announcing third-party data services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that offer impressive integration with Google’s own offerings. Confluent, the company founded by the creators of Apache Kafka, is one such partner. Fivetran, which delivers data from a variety of databases and Software as a Services (SaaS) applications into major data warehouse platforms, is another.
For Confluent, the story is pretty straightforward: Confluent Cloud, the company’s managed service based on Apache Kafka, had been already been available for almost a year on GCP. But now, rather than simply running on GCP infrastructure, Confluent Cloud on GCP will integrate tightly with the first-party experience. This includes integrated billing and support, as well as the ability to manage Confluent Cloud from the GCP console.
