Confluent and AWS Lambda can be used to build scalable and real-time event-driven architectures (EDAs) that respond to specific business events. Confluent provides a streaming SaaS solution based on Apache Kafka and built on Kora: The Cloud-Native Engine for Apache Kafka, allowing you to focus on building event-driven applications without operating the underlying infrastructure. AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that provides a code execution framework that abstracts the need to provision, operate, and scale any of the underlying infrastructure. Provisioned Mode for AWS Lambda's Kafka ESM allows customers to control and optimize the throughput of their Confluent-Lambda Kafka applications to achieve an enhanced throughput profile for performance-sensitive Kafka applications. This feature offers controls to optimize throughput, responsive auto-scaling, simplified networking experience and charges, and improved developer experience. By activating Provisioned Mode, customers can improve the performance profile of their Kafka applications, reduce delays for real-time applications that see sudden spikes in traffic, and simplify network configuration by removing the requirement to configure PrivateLink. The pricing for Provisioned Mode is based on the provisioned minimum event pollers and the number of event pollers consumed during automatic scaling, measured in Event Poller Unit hours.