Deploying Apache Flink and Kafka at scale requires careful networking design to ensure high performance, security, and compliance. Public cloud networking can introduce unnecessary latency, security risks, and egress costs, making private networking solutions a critical consideration for enterprises operating in regulated industries or multi-cloud environments.

In this talk, we will explore how to architect a high-performance private networking setup using:
• VPC Peering and Private Link: When to use each approach for low-latency, secure data exchange between Flink and Kafka clusters.
• Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Deployments: Best practices for running Redpanda and Ververica’s Flink platform in an isolated environment while maintaining full control over networking.
• Security and Compliance Advantages: How private networking ensures data sovereignty, regulatory compliance (GDPR, HIPAA), and protection against unauthorized access.
• Performance Gains and Cost Optimizations: Reducing cross-region traffic costs, eliminating NAT bottlenecks, and ensuring predictable throughput in production.
• Implementation Challenges and Lessons Learned: Common pitfalls when setting up private networking in AWS, GCP, and Azure, and how to troubleshoot networking issues in Flink-Kafka pipelines.

By the end of this session, attendees will gain a clear roadmap for setting up private networking solutions for large-scale, real-time streaming architectures. Whether you’re an infrastructure engineer, data platform architect, or security-conscious enterprise, this talk will provide actionable insights on running Kafka and Flink securely, efficiently, and at scale in your own cloud environment.