# KCP: How to Migrate to Confluent Cloud in Days, Not Weeks

DevFeed: [KCP: How to Migrate to Confluent Cloud in Days, Not Weeks](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/kcp-how-to-migrate-to-confluent-cloud-in-days-not-weeks-26723.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.confluent.io/blog/automate-kafka-migration-with-kcp/>)

Author: Ahmed Saef Zamzam

Published: 2026-09-14T07:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Confluent: Data in motion](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/confluent-data-in-motion.md>)

Topics: [Kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kafka.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [Confluent Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/confluent-cloud.md>), [Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replication.md>), [Infrastructure as code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/infrastructure-as-code.md>), [Provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/provisioning.md>), [Access Control](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/access-control.md>), [Structured-data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/structured-data.md>)

Tags: [access-control](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/access-control.md>), [confluent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/confluent.md>), [confluent-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/confluent-cloud.md>), [data-replication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-replication.md>), [infrastructure-as-code-iac](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure-as-code-iac.md>), [kafka](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kafka.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/provisioning.md>), [replication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/replication.md>), [schema](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/schema.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how Confluent's open source KCP tool automates migration from Amazon MSK to Confluent Cloud. KCP supports discovery, infrastructure provisioning, ACL and schema mapping, and migration, while Cluster Linking provides offset-preserving data replication. Support for self-managed Kafka migrations is described as coming soon.

## Source excerpt

Use Kafka Copy Paste (KCP) to automate Kafka migration with infrastructure generation, ACL and schema mapping, and offset-preserving data replication.