--- title: Introducing Confluent Cloud Freight Clusters | daily.dev description: Freight clusters are a new type of Confluent Cloud cluster that is designed for high-throughput, relaxed latency workloads. They are up to 90% cheaper than... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-confluent-cloud-freight-clusters-7qrjpcpqd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introducing Confluent Cloud Freight Clusters | daily.dev og:description: Freight clusters are a new type of Confluent Cloud cluster that is designed for high-throughput, relaxed latency workloads. They are up to 90% cheaper than... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-confluent-cloud-freight-clusters-7qrjpcpqd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7qrjpcPQD.png og:image:alt: Introducing Confluent Cloud Freight Clusters og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introducing Confluent Cloud Freight Clusters **[Confluent Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/conf)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Freight clusters are a new type of Confluent Cloud cluster that is designed for high-throughput, relaxed latency workloads. They are up to 90% cheaper than self-managing Apache Kafka. Freight clusters utilize the latest innovations in Confluent Cloud's cloud-native engine, Kora, to deliver low-cost networking by trading off ultra low latency performance. They are a perfect fit for high-volume use cases such as logging, telemetry, or feeding data lakes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#confluent-cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/confluent-cloud) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-confluent-cloud-freight-clusters-7qrjpcpqd) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Introducing Confluent Cloud Freight Clusters","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-confluent-cloud-freight-clusters-7qrjpcpqd","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-confluent-cloud-freight-clusters-7qrjpcpqd"},"datePublished":"2024-05-02T04:07:55.609Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:28:47.883Z","description":"Freight clusters are a new type of Confluent Cloud cluster that is designed for high-throughput, relaxed latency workloads. They are up to 90% cheaper than...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/5957214543e61b2009e2522cc6045172?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/5957214543e61b2009e2522cc6045172?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Confluent Blog","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Confluent Blog","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/cb2c20a237b7409591c7a087c42fb714","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/conf"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-confluent-cloud-freight-clusters-7qrjpcpqd","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"confluent-cloud","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Confluent Blog","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/conf"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Introducing Confluent Cloud Freight Clusters"}]} ```