Creating a Confluent Cloud Kafka Cluster
Once you Log in, you may see a pop-up asking few details regarding your Kafka experience and roles. Click skip and go ahead.
On the next page, it will show options to configure your Confluent Cloud Kafka Cluster. Select Cluster Type as Basic and click Begin Configurations
On the next page, Select AWS and choose Region as any from the below 3 and Availability as Single zone for the workshop and click Continue:
| Region | us-west-2 | us-east-2 | us-east-1 |
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Click Review and proceed to next page. On the next page, provide a name for your cluster, say Confluent Workshop and click Launch cluster. The cluster will be created instantly.
Within a few seconds you will have a Confluent Cloud Kafka cluster up and running. Lets proceed with next steps