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December 19, 2024
Documentation is now available to help you choose between Pub/Sub and Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka. The comparison is based on factors such as operational ease, portability, existing Kafka setup, and integration with other Google Cloud products. A detailed feature comparison table is also included. For more information, see Choose Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka or Pub/Sub.
December 13, 2024
Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka now supports moving open source Kafka data to Google Cloud using various Dataflow templates. You can move Kafka data to Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka, BigQuery, and Cloud Storage. For more information about these data movement use cases, see Move Kafka data in Google Cloud.
November 12, 2024
Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka is now in General Availability (GA).
August 09, 2024
Apache Kafka for BigQuery is now called Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka.
July 24, 2024
Client library samples for Python are now added to all relevant pages. For more information, see Apache Kafka for BigQuery client libraries.
July 10, 2024
Terraform samples are now available for creating clusters and topics. For more information, see Provision Apache Kafka for BigQuery resources with Terraform.
June 27, 2024
Client library samples for Java and Go are now added to all relevant pages. For more information, see Apache Kafka for BigQuery client libraries.