Aiven Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Help Companies Drive More Value from Their Data

Helsinki, Finland - October 9, 2024 – Aiven, the trusted data and AI platform company, announced today that it has signed a three-year strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), to help customers focus on innovation and drive value from their data in a real-time, data-driven world.

Aiven has also achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Data and Analytics Competency status. This designation recognizes that Aiven’s powerful open-source data services, available on AWS, empower businesses with advanced data analytics capabilities while removing the complexities of managing the underlying infrastructure.

Under the strategic collaboration agreement, Aiven will provide its data platform services on AWS to help organizations stream, store, and serve data, simply and securely, and accelerate next-generation applications like AI/ML, confidently.

“Aiven is proud to be recognised as a strategic partner and collaborator with AWS with the signing of the strategic collaboration agreement and to also achieve the Data and Analytics Competency status,” said Oskari Saarenmaa, Chief Executive Officer, Aiven. “Businesses see the value of data and real-time analytics on their revenue growth and customer satisfaction, and cloud choice is instrumental in achieving this. Our strengthened collaboration with AWS combines our data management platform and open-source expertise with AWS cloud technologies, offering our customers agility and scalability in the cloud and, ultimately, empowering them to innovate and respond to changing business needs at pace.”

"Aiven is a great example of an AWS partner that is helping organizations to drive business transformation through implementing a robust data strategy,” said Antonio Alonso Lopez, Director of Partner Management, EMEA at AWS. “Through this strategic collaboration, we look forward to working together and unlocking value for customers with Aiven’s powerful open-source data platform combined with the unmatched scalability and security of the AWS Cloud.”

idealo, one of Europe's leading online comparison platforms for products, is a data-intensive business benefiting from the Aiven and AWS relationship. idealo chose Aiven to manage its data infrastructure in AWS, removing the management burden from internal teams and allowing them to focus on innovation – and cementing its position in a highly competitive market. Using Aiven for Apache Kafka® on AWS helps idealo get the best prices to its customers in near real-time.

“With 50,000 merchants and 500 million product offers, we handle massive amounts of data so having a fast, reliable data infrastructure is a critical part of our business model. People are interested in the best price now, not five minutes ago. Delays, inaccurate data or intermittent service could impact trust in the idealo brand,” said Wanis Fahmy, Senior Cloud Engineer, idealo.

Achieving AWS Data and Analytics Competency status

Achieving the AWS Data and Analytics Competency status differentiates Aiven as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member that provides specialized open-source data management services designed to help enterprises adopt, develop and deploy complex data projects on AWS. To receive the APN designation, Aiven has demonstrated deep AWS expertise and that its solutions run seamlessly on AWS.

AWS provides the broadest and deepest set of managed services for data lakes and analytics, along with the largest partner community to help organizations to build virtually any data and analytics application in the cloud. AWS Data and Analytics Competency Partners like Aiven have demonstrated success in helping customers evaluate and use the tools and best practices for collecting, storing, governing and analyzing data at any scale.

This is enabling scalable,flexible, and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify Consulting and Technology APN Partners with deep industry experience and expertise.

“Using data optimally can mean the difference between an organization’s success and failure,” said Elena Zykova, Vice President, Global Partnerships, Aiven. “Aiven is a committed AWS partner and achieving the AWS Data and Analytics Competency status is the next stage in our trajectory. We are all about providing customers with cloud choice and delivering complementary open-source data services that accelerate customer deployments and business advantage."

With a strong presence at the AWS Summits and AWS re:Invent 2024 in December, Aiven continues to build its strategic relationship with AWS, and bring more value to our joint customers. Aiven is available on the AWS marketplace, where AWS customers can deploy any of the Aiven cloud services on its data platform, including Aiven for Apache Kafka®, Aiven for Apache Flink®, Aiven for OpenSearch®, Aiven for Apache Cassandra®, Aiven for PostgreSQL®, Aiven for MySQL®, and Aiven for Dragonfly®. Please visit here for a free trial.

About Aiven

Aiven is a trusted data and AI platform company, helping organizations gain more value from their data. Aiven’s cloud platform combines open choice services to stream, store, and serve data, simply, securely, and rapidly across major cloud providers to power innovation. Aiven is trusted by thousands of customers to create next-generation applications confidently and quickly. You can visit us at aiven.io and follow us on LinkedIn and X at @aiven_io

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