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As “one of the first partners to build this type of integration with Microsoft,” Rosanova said, Confluent and Microsoft engineering teams have been collaborating to code a custom interface in Azure specifically for Confluent, Rosanova said.

Previously, Confluent users had to switch between Confluent Cloud and Azure interfaces, while now, “everything they need is in one place,” Rosanova said. Users can use their same cloud identity to interact with Confluent Cloud and can also view and track their Confluent Cloud resources from within the Azure portal.

One of the idiosyncrasies associated with Azure that required configuration work by Confluent’s engineers involved how Azure “works off a resource provider for the control plane,” in order to create and manage resources, Rosanova said.

With Confluent Cloud, Confluent said Azure customers can now access managed connectors to Azure and Microsoft services, including: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Confluent are sponsors of The New Stack.