1. The document introduces Confluent Cloud, which provides Apache Kafka as a service and allows organizations to liberate developers from managing Kafka infrastructure. 2. Confluent Cloud is built on open source Apache Kafka and provides access to the rich Kafka ecosystem through pre-built connectors while minimizing operations burden by handling infrastructure setup, cluster tuning, upgrades and more. 3. Key benefits of Confluent Cloud include freedom to deploy Kafka in any public cloud, leveraging the leading streaming platform to develop faster applications, and being relieved of operations management through a fully managed service.