Confluent Cloud is not only a fully -managed Apache Kafka service, but also provides important additional pieces for building applications and pipelines including managed connectors , Schema Registry , and ksqlDB . Managed Connectors are run for you (hence, managed!) within Confluent Cloud - you just specify the technology to which you want to integrate in or out of Kafka and Confluent Cloud does the rest.
Read more: Running a self-managed Kafka Connect worker for Confluent Cloud