# ✍️ Making Confluent Cloud 10x More Elastic Than Apache Kafka

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/making-confluent-cloud-10x-more-elastic-than-apache-kafka/5175>\
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**Created:** [31 May 2022 13:57 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/making-confluent-cloud-10x-more-elastic-than-apache-kafka/5175 "2022-05-31T13:57:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [31 May 2022 13:57 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/making-confluent-cloud-10x-more-elastic-than-apache-kafka/5175/1 "2022-05-31T13:57:41Z")

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✨ There’s a new post on the [Confluent blog](https://confluent.io/blog). Here’s a snippet from it:

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Kafka is horizontally scalable, but it’s not enough. So we made Confluent Cloud 10x more elastic - 10x faster to scale up to GB/s or down to zero, easier to use, and cost-effective.

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**[👉 Head over to the blog to read the full article](https://www.confluent.io/blog/10x-apache-kafka-elasticity/)**