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What is Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Aiven for Apache Kafka® is a fully managed distributed event streaming service, that can be deployed in the cloud of your choice. Aiven for Apache Kafka is ideal for event-driven applications, near-real-time data transfer and data pipelines, streaming analytics, and any use case that requires moving huge amounts of real-time data between applications and systems. With Aiven for Apache Kafka you can set up fully managed Kafka clusters in less than 10 minutes — using the Aiven web console or programmatically via Aiven’s API, CLI, Terraform provider or Kubernetes operator. You can easily connect it to your existing tech stack with a fully managed Apache Kafka Connect service with over 30+ connectors. Monitoring your clusters with logs and metrics is also available out of the box via multiple service integrations. Get access to a complete open source ecosystem of streaming technologies and tools around Apache Kafka to fully manage, and operate a real time data infrastructure at scale using: Aiven for Apache Kafka: the core event streaming framework allowing you to transport data within your organization Aiven for Apache Kafka Connect: a fully managed, fully open source, distributed service enabling you to integrate your existing data sources and sinks seamlessly with Aiven for Apache Kafka. Aiven for Apache Kafka MirrorMaker2: a fully managed, fully open source distributed data replication service for cluster to cluster data replication, disaster recovery and geo proximity across multiple regions. Karapace®: a fully open source Kafka Schema Registry that applications can access to serialize and deserialize messages with popular formats such as AVRO, Protobuf and JSON. Aiven for Apache Flink®: a fully managed, fully open source streaming SQL engine for stateful stream processing over your data streams. Klaw: an open source data governance tool that helps enterprises exercise Apache Kafka® topic and schema governance. Aiven is ISO / IEC 27001: 2013, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA compliant. Check our pricing and try our free 30-day trial at https://aiven.io/kafka.

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Aiven for Apache Kafka is a fully managed streaming platform, deployable in the cloud of your choice. Snap it into your existing workflows with the click of a button, automate away the mundane tasks, and focus on building your core apps.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

NO VENDOR LOCK-IN
100% Open Source, you can take your cluster anywhere you want. Launch new clusters AND move clusters between different cloud providers with a few clicks.

BRING YOUR OWN CLOUD (BYOC)
For strict control requirements, you have the option to set up Aiven services within your own Cloud Provider account. The services can be managed through the Aiven console, and the user experience remains the same as with the regular Aiven service model.

LATEST KAFKA VERSION AND FEATURES
You’ll always get access to the latest Kafka version within a few weeks of release. We offer the most features of any solution on the market, so you have a lot of options with your deployment.

WORKFLOW AND COMPLIANCE
You can deploy our Kafka solution via our web console, API, CLI and Terraform. We’re compliant with all major governance standards, which makes things easier if your company has strict requirements.

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We help organizations fuel the continuous innovation needed to create awesome, data-intensive applications by using the leading open source technologies.

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Easy of use, terraform provider, cli, ... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Everything is ok. I have nothing what I dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

We run all our services in K8s, but we wanted to offload some more complex operations tasks from our dev ops team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It's vendor-agnostic - I have been using AWS SQS, SNS and EventBridge for similar things before Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Managing topics and all the gritty details has a bit of a learning curve I guess Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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The transition from "databases and cronjobs" to an event-driven architecture Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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The avn CLI tool is very helpful for automating jobs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I find the web UI is a little difficult to follow and it would be nice to have an obvious way of viewing topic schemas on here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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As an end user of Kafka (Software Engineer) who does not manage operations, Aiven is largely like any other Kafka provider, but the tooling is nice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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The simplicity of CLI use and Terraform modules to provision and maintain the infrastructure. On the other hand, services are provisioned in a really quick and reliable way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Price? I am not sure, actually. I love the services provided. I would like to see more technologies inside Aiven ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using it in a multi-cloud environment with a microservice infrastructure running on Kubernetes. It provides us with the event-driven tool we needed to let our systems be enough asynchronous so we can scale big-time without affecting performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Things I like about Aiven is that you can easily see all the necessary information about your kafka setup, like metrics, logs, topics and it is very intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

For now, I can't really think about anything that I dislike about Aiven. But new features are always welcomed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It helps developers to focus on their job instead things they don't like to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I would say that having a stable and reliable service is the most important thing for Kafka, but clear billing info and a nice UI are a great addition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Can't really think of anything. Perhaps could be a sign that I didn't use more advanced features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It clearly allows thinking less about the infrastructure and focusing on the logic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Very easy to use. The console UI is very clean and it's easy to find everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I honestly don't think I dislike anything in particular. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It's allowing us to provide realtime updates to our end user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Simple, easly, and quick sign up. Getting started guides were great. Intuitive UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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There's nothing that I didn't like. Having used Confluent in the past, it just took me a little learning to get used to the Aiven portall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

I like that Aiven provides a PaaS service, and not a SaaS service like Confluent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Not having to maintain or manage the Kafka cluster and all components around it like Zookeeper. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Not what I have found yet. Might come up later when I start using it more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

What Aiven does for us is to take care of the maintenance of Kafka and the products around it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Best tool and all environment info at one place and easy to maintain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Nothing found as of now. Nothing found as of now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Aiven for Apache Kafka solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Aiven's hosted and managed-Apache Kafka, we can set up clusters, deploy new nodes, migrate clouds, and upgrade existing versions — in a single mouse click — and monitor them through a simple dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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