The Service Level Agreement (SLA) for Managed Service for Apache Kafka now covers the Produce API.

The format for bootstrap addresses and broker URLs has changed for new Managed Service for Apache Kafka clusters.

To learn how to get a cluster's bootstrap address, see View a Managed Service for Apache Kafka cluster.

You can configure a Managed Service for Apache Kafka cluster as a public cluster to let client applications connect over the public internet.

For more information, see Connect clients to a public cluster.