Connect
Connect to popular data sources and destinations with pre-built connectors, or create your own.
Stream and process your data in real time
Accelerate decision making, innovation, and growth by becoming a real-time, data-driven organization.
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Dedicated Kafka clusters with a complete streaming ecosystem
- End-to-End Open Source Streaming: Aiven offers a complete, managed, fully open-source streaming ecosystem built around Apache Kafka, gaining maximum flexibility and complete control over your streaming infrastructure to fostering innovation.
- Multi-Cloud: Deploy your entire streaming ecosystem on your preferred cloud provider with one-click portability to other clouds, enabling true flexibility and cost savings.
- Streamline Data Movement & Processing: Seamlessly transport data with Kafka, integrate with external systems using Kafka Connect, manage schemas with Karapace, replicate data with MirrorMaker 2, and process streams in real-time with Flink.
- Operational Simplicity & Governance: Simplify Kafka cluster management, scaling, and monitoring while ensuring data quality, security, and compliance with Klaw's governance capabilities.
- Managed, Open Source Kafka: Streamline your real-time data pipelines and event-driven architectures with a hassle-free, cloud-native service built on 100% open-source Apache Kafka.
- Multi-Cloud Flexibility: Deploy on your preferred cloud provider with one-click portability to other clouds, enabling complete flexibility and control over your streaming data.
- Seamless Scalability and High Availability: Scale your Kafka clusters effortlessly to handle any workload, and enjoy peace of mind with automatic failover and multi-zone replication.
- Enterprise-Grade Security: Safeguard your sensitive data with end-to-end encryption, private networking, role-based access control, and comprehensive audit logging.
- Streamlined Data Integration: Effortlessly connect Apache Kafka to your existing data sources and sinks.
- Extensive Connector Library: Leverage a growing library of 30+ pre-built connectors for seamless integration with popular databases, cloud services, and messaging systems.
- Managed & Scalable: Deploy and scale managed Kafka Connect clusters on your preferred cloud, without the operational overhead.
- Focus on Your Data Pipelines: Let Aiven handle the complexities of Kafka Connect management, scaling, and security, so you can focus on building and optimizing your data flows.
- Effortless Kafka Replication: Simplify cross-cluster data synchronization with a managed MirrorMaker 2 service.
- Multi-Cloud: Replicate data seamlessly between Kafka clusters located anywhere with one-click simplicity.
- High Availability & Scalability: Ensure continuous data replication with built-in fault tolerance and horizontal scaling capabilities.
- Peace of Mind: Aiven's 24/7 expert support helps you maintain reliable and secure replication flows.
- Powerful Stream Processing, Simplified: Build and deploy real-time data pipelines and streaming analytics applications.
- Cloud-Agnostic Deployment: Run your Flink jobs on your preferred cloud provider for maximum flexibility and cloud portability.
- Seamless Integration: Easily connect Flink with other Aiven services like Kafka and PostgreSQL, creating a unified streaming data platform.
- Focus on Development, Not Operations: Aiven handles cluster provisioning, scaling, maintenance, and high availability, allowing you to focus on building and optimizing your Flink applications.
- Open-Source Flexibility: Leverage the power and transparency of a fully open-source schema registry solution.
- Centralized Schema Management: Ensure data compatibility and enforce schema evolution with Karapace to avoid downstream issues.
- Seamless Integration: Effortlessly integrate Karapace with Aiven's Kafka streaming ecosystem.
- Simplified Schema Operations: Benefit from user-friendly schema registration, validation, and enforcement.
- Streamline Kafka Governance: Simplify and centralize the management of your Kafka clusters, topics, connectors, and schemas with Klaw's intuitive interface.
- Enhance Security & Compliance: Implement role-based access control and approval workflows to ensure data security and adherence to regulatory requirements.
- Empower Developer Self-Service: Enable developers to request and manage Kafka resources independently while maintaining centralized control and oversight.
- Ensure Data Quality: Integrate with schema registries to enforce schema compatibility and prevent data corruption, maintaining data integrity throughout your streaming pipelines.
How it works
Open source streaming ecosystem
Aiven offers a comprehensive, fully open source, managed streaming ecosystem built on Apache Kafka. This ecosystem seamlessly integrates with the broader Aiven data and AI platform, empowering organizations to build, deploy, and scale real-time data pipelines, event-driven architectures, and machine learning applications effortlessly across any cloud.
Stream
Move massive volumes of data with very low latencies.
Process
Transform data in flight to prepare it for downstream systems and applications.
Store
Store data streams in user-defined topics for an immutable history. Set retention periods and utilize Tiered Storage for cost optimization.
Govern
Manage connectors, schemas, topics, and access control for data quality and security.
Productize
Serve streaming data to systems and applications for human and machine analysis, decision making, and action.
With Aiven, we now have the flexibility to enormously scale to accept new data and new users and ingest everything into the analytics layer. We can get insights into the data in less than two minutes, which has helped us enable a more efficient reporting timeline.
Sachin Menon
VP of Data & Marketing, Priceline
Benefits
Become real-time data driven
Aiven brings together all the elements needed for you to move huge amounts of data with very low latency. Our streaming platform is ideal for event-driven architectures, real-time data pipelines, change data capture (CDC), fine-tuning AI models, real-time analytics, and more.
Let Aiven manage your streaming infrastructure so you can focus on creating real-time applications and engaging customer experiences.
Open source
Reduce dependencies on proprietary solutions and skills with a fully open source streaming ecosystem supported by Aiven's committer-driven expertise.
Portable across clouds
Create an Apache Kafka® cluster in the cloud of your choice with the freedom of single-click portability to other cloud providers.
Connected
Connect to your data sources and destinations with pre-built connectors and leverage multiple integrations to your existing tools and metrics.
Automated platform
Fully self-driving with automatic provisioning, cluster expansion, storage and capacity management, monitoring, upgrades, and security patches.
Resilient
Self-healing automation with 99.99% uptime SLA through dedicated, cloud-native clusters deployed across three availability zones.
Predictable pricing
Aiven provides simple, transparent, all-in, and predictable pricing without hidden costs or complexities.
Why Aiven
Our streaming platform
Aiven's streaming platform delivers a complete open-source streaming ecosystem built around Apache Kafka®. Beyond high-volume and low-latency data transport, it provides all of the tools to ensure your data is reliable, secure, and well-governed.
Aiven for Apache Kafka® is a managed, cloud-native service that empowers you to build real-time data pipelines and event-driven architectures with ease. Deploy on your preferred cloud with one-click portability across clouds, and enjoy the simplicity of a managed service while leveraging the power of 100% open-source Kafka. Scale effortlessly, integrate seamlessly with your existing tools, and ensure top-notch security for your sensitive data.
Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect simplifies data integration, making it effortless to move data in and out of your Kafka clusters. Deploy managed Kafka Connect clusters on your preferred cloud, and leverage a growing library of pre-built connectors to integrate with popular data sources and sinks. Focus on building your data pipelines or event-driven architecture, while Aiven handles the complexities of Kafka Connect management, scaling, and security.
Aiven for Apache Kafka® MirrorMaker 2 is a managed service that simplifies cross-cluster Kafka data replication. Effortlessly keep your topics in sync across multiple Kafka clusters, whether they're deployed in different regions, clouds.
Aiven for Apache Flink® empowers you to build and deploy powerful, stateful stream processing applications with ease. This managed service handles the complexities of Flink cluster provisioning, scaling, and maintenance, allowing you to focus on developing real-time data pipelines, event-driven architectures, and analytics solutions. Deploy on your preferred cloud, and seamlessly integrate Flink with other Aiven services like Kafka and PostgreSQL for a unified data platform.
Karapace is a fully open-source managed schema registry service, provides essential schema management capabilities for your Apache Kafka® clusters. Karapace ensures data compatibility and governance, allowing you to evolve your schemas with confidence. Enjoy the benefits of seamless integration, simplified schema registration and validation, and compatibility enforcement, all within the Aiven streaming ecosystem.
Klaw is an open-source, web-based toolkit that simplifies and streamlines Apache Kafka® governance. With Klaw, you can easily manage topics, schemas, ACLs, and connectors through an intuitive interface, enabling developer self-service while maintaining control and security. Implement role-based access control, approval workflows, and schema compatibility checks to ensure data quality and compliance. Klaw seamlessly integrates with Aiven for Apache Kafka, providing a comprehensive solution for managing your Kafka infrastructure and data governance needs.
Apache Kafka® has been a critical component of our data infrastructure for several years but we were losing control of our Kafka clusters. If Kafka doesn't work, our streaming services don’t work. With Aiven’s extensive expertise in managing and maintaining Kafka, we knew we could rely on them.
Thomas Aalèn
Head of Internal Development Platform, TV2
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