Confluent, Inc. announced that Cluster Linking is available on Confluent Platform 7.0. Combined with its earlier release on Confluent Cloud, Cluster Linking can now be used in any environment, everywhere an enterprise?s data and workloads reside. Cluster Linking bridges on-premises and cloud environments, moving data in real time to wherever a business needs it. That includes major cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, in addition to private clouds and traditional datacenters. It seamlessly links Confluent clusters, regardless of their environment or geographical location, enabling organizations to securely replicate data and migrate to the cloud with low downtime. There?s now a single connection pattern for data to travel across a business in real time, which significantly alleviates architectural complexity and reduces technical debt. Global teams also benefit from self-service access to data in real time with data perfectly mirrored in different regions across the organization. Introducing Confluent Platform 7.0: to enable any business to set data in motion, Confluent Platform 7.0 also features new cloud-native management capabilities and improved cloud-based monitoring for on-premises clusters. New cloud-native management capabilities for Confluent for Kubernetes. With the launch of Confluent for Kubernetes, Confluent made it easy than ever to build and manage a private cloud Apache Kafka? service, whether on VMware Tanzu, Red Hat OpenShift, or other private cloud solutions. In this new release, organizations can now provision and manage connectors, schemas, and cluster links through the complete, declarative API rather than through manual processes. These new cloud-native management capabilities help organizations reduce operational burdens for their engineering teams and achieve fast time to value with the platform. In addition, Confluent for Kubernetes elastically scales clusters up or down to meet demand through its new Shrink API. This offers greater flexibility as business demands change, enabling teams to cost-effectively handle any data in motion workload without needing to overprovision infrastructure. New Reduced Infrastructure Mode for Confluent Control Center leverages Confluent Health+ to low cluster monitoring costs. Confluent Control Center centrally manages and monitors key components across Confluent Platform to increase visibility and reduce costly business disruption and downtime. Organizations can now leverage Reduced Infrastructure Mode for Control Center to strictly use its management capabilities while offloading monitoring to Confluent Health+. With Health+, organizations can leverage intelligent alerting and cloud-based monitoring capabilities to greatly reduce the risk of cluster downtime and eliminate the need to store monitoring data on-premises.