# Confluent Cloud, REST proxy & an additional layer

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-cloud-rest-proxy-an-additional-layer/1242>\
**Category:** REST Proxy\
**Created:** [18 March 2021 22:20 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-cloud-rest-proxy-an-additional-layer/1242 "2021-03-18T22:20:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![callumd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@callumd](https://forum.confluent.io/u/callumd)\
**Post date:** [18 March 2021 22:20 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-cloud-rest-proxy-an-additional-layer/1242/1 "2021-03-18T22:20:33Z")

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Hello all,

I’m wondering if anyone has any experience with creating an additional layer between producer & Confluent Cloud REST proxy? I’m looking for anything that can help me understand how to build a layer between a producer & REST Proxy layer. The layer in between will accept the events from producer & forward to Confluent Cloud. Any interesting war stories? Tried & failed, futile, success & found it useful? I am interested in anything that can help me make a decision.

Thanks!  
Dan

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**Author:** ![rmoff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/rmoff/32/3_2.png) [@rmoff](https://forum.confluent.io/u/rmoff)\
**Post date:** [19 March 2021 11:05 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-cloud-rest-proxy-an-additional-layer/1242/2 "2021-03-19T11:05:03Z")

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Hi Dan,

I’m not entirely clear what you’re looking to do. Confluent Cloud doesn’t currently have a REST Proxy.

You can [self-manage your own REST Proxy, connected to Confluent Cloud](https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/cp-component/kafka-rest-config.html?utm_source=communityforum&utm_medium=organicsocial&utm_campaign=tm.devx_ch.rmoff_2021-03-19&utm_term=rmoff-devx).

If you have something else in mind, please do clarify and we will endeavour to help 🙂

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**Author:** ![callumd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@callumd](https://forum.confluent.io/u/callumd)\
**Post date:** [23 March 2021 00:56 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-cloud-rest-proxy-an-additional-layer/1242/3 "2021-03-23T00:56:42Z")

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thanks Robin, I was looking for some working examples of the setup shown in image below particularly with load balancer in AWS. How to get traffic from producer to load balancer to rest proxy? Is there such a doc/example/repo exists somewhere that I can have a look at.

 ![Screen Shot 2021-03-23 at 1.52.31 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/confluentcommunity/original/1X/2a06f863a38609e6908254b71edb96c6aae2208a.png)