May 22, 2025
By Stephanie Simone
Confluent, Inc., the data streaming pioneer, is introducing new Confluent Cloud capabilities that make it easier to process and secure data for faster insights and decision-making.
Snapshot queries, new inConfluent Cloud for Apache Flink, bring together real-time and historic data processing to make artificial intelligence (AI) agents and analytics smarter, the company said.
Confluent Cloud network (CCN) routingsimplifies private networking for Apache Flink, andIP Filteringadds access controls for publicly accessible Flink pipelines, securing data for agentic AI and analytics.
“Agentic AI is moving from hype to enterprise adoption as organizations look to gain a competitive edge and win in today’s market,” said Shaun Clowes, chief product officer at Confluent. “But without high-quality data, even the most advanced systems can’t deliver real value. The new Confluent Cloud for Apache Flinkfeatures make it possible to blend real-time and batch data so that enterprises can trust their agentic AI to drive real change.”
In Confluent Cloud, snapshot queries let teams unify historical and streaming data with a single product and language, enabling consistent, intelligent experiences for both analytics and agentic AI.
With seamlessTableflowintegration, teams can easily gain context from past data. Snapshot queries allow teams to explore, test, and analyze data without spinning up new workloads. This makes it easier to supply agents with context from historic and real-time data or conduct an audit to understand key trends and patterns, according to the company.
Snapshot queries are now available inearly access.
Private networking is important for organizations that require an additional layer of security. Confluent offers a streamlined private networking solution by reusing existingCCNsthat teams have already created for Apache Kafkaclusters.
Teams can use CCN to securely connect their data to any Flink workload, such as streaming pipelines, AI agents, or analytics. CCN routing is now generally available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in all regions where Flink is supported.
IP Filteringfor Flink helps teams restrict internet traffic to allowed IPs and improves visibility into unauthorized access attempts by making it easier to track the attempts. IP Filtering is generally available for all Confluent Cloud users.
Now organizations can more easily turn the promise of agentic AI into a competitive advantage, Confluent said.
For more information about this news, visit www.confluent.io.