CFU
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- Unit
- Confluent Unit for Flink per minute
- Aliases
- Confluent Flink Unit; FLINK_NUM_CFUS
- Definition
- Billing on Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink: "A CFU is a logical unit of processing power that Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink uses to measure the resources it consumes."
- Counting rules
- Confluent bills the total CFUs consumed inside a compute pool per minute, shown in hours (30 CFU-minutes = 0.5 CFU-hours). The customer cannot set the CFUs a statement uses; MAX_CFU caps a pool and cannot be lowered below its initial value. A Baseline CFU sets a billed floor for a statement even when idle.
- Floors / minimums
- Each Flink statement consumes a minimum of 1 CFU-minute.
- Applies to products
- Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink
- Product category