Snowflake <> Kafka, in minutes. ockam.io/blog/snowflake-push… It is unwise to publicly expose your Kafka brokers to the Internet. It paints a giant public target on your most sensitive business data. Teams that value the security of their customers keep their Kafka private. This however creates the challenge of how to move data between private Kafka and other systems like Snowflake. Ockam makes it trivial to create end-to-end encrypted, very high-throughput, secure portals to private Kafka brokers. Your Kafka could be anywhere – in a data-center, in a private VPC, in any cloud, in a private kubernetes cluster, in a BYOC deployment, etc. Here is an example: The @SnowflakeDB team shared with us how many of their customers are unable to securely and easily move insights from analyses in Snowflake to other operational systems. These enterprise customers have tried all sorts of janky ways to make it work – from punching insecure holes in their firewalls to elaborate multi-region private links that took them many months to setup. We worked with Snowflake to create a simple Snowflake Native App. This app uses Ockam to securely connect Snowflake with private Kafka. It then enables Change Data Capture (CDC) from any Snowflake table to any Kafka topic. A few simple clicks and you have insights streaming from Snowflake to private Kafka anywhere. Safely and securely.