Aiven Platform Reviews

One of the best things about Aiven for OpenSearch is how effortless it makes the setup and management of clusters. Compared to other services like AWS OpenSearch, Aiven stands out with its straightforward interface and quick deployment. It takes care of the backend work, like scaling and backups, so you can focus on using OpenSearch rather than managing it. The transparent pricing is a big plus, too—no hidden costs or surprises, which makes budgeting easier. Plus, the support team is responsive and genuinely helpful, which is reassuring when handling complex data needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One downside with Aiven for OpenSearch is that it can feel a bit limiting in customization compared to AWS, especially for those who prefer fine-tuning every aspect of their cluster setup. While Aiven’s simplicity is a strength, it may lack some of the advanced configuration options that power users or those with very specific requirements might need. Additionally, Aiven’s pricing, though transparent, can still be on the higher side for small projects or startups when compared to some alternatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The setup management is super easy and smooth. you don't have to get stressed about their updates and patches of their management infrastructure is super amazing. Aiven offers high availability with multi-region deployments and Aiven can easily integrate with other aiven services which is good and also it provide amazing security to their platform which will ensure your security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Price will be more transparent the customization options are limited and community support is is lesser than the other platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aiven is very easy to use and deploy (in our cloud if needed). Their support is good and helpful. They will give us right docs and reference for BYOA too. It is easy to spin up the services and manage users. Pricing is straight forward.

Implementing the communication with Aiven services is almost same with services which we self host or use.

We are using it in production for more than 2 years and it is working well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel like bit pricy (Even with BYOA, Instance and storage cost interms of Initial setup cost. Instead of just having double the infra in plans, they can inroduce more adjustable plans to have infra scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like having choice of Cloud providers.

You can choose based on your preference or based on cost.

Many services have free trial and some services like Caching and MySQL has Free tier, which is perfect to get started or even for staying with free tier for long term for small project.

Setting up new product is super easy and almost instant, all done from the browser.

You also get generated code in your preferred language to get started and connect to your new service.

Even when service is not free you can still fine a very reasonably priced offering from one of the 5 cloud providers.

I also like the option to easily migrate data from existing on-premises database to the new hosted DB instances.

You have access to logs and statistics like CPU and memory utilization so you can monitor your database performance.

If you looking for a hosted Kafka solution Aiven has good options that priced very reasonably. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not all products have sample code for Node.js

Not all products have free tier or free trial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The standout feature for me is their automated high availability setup with standby nodes - it's genuinely hands-off and reliable. Their automated backup system and point-in-time recovery are key for our disaster recovery plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Their pricing is notably higher and the premium for their management layer is significant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What distinguishes aiven from other database providers is it's super quick to get a cluster up and running, followed by a generous 300$ coupon so you can tinker around and utilise the platform wholeheartedly. It also gives an option to run upto 25 clusters, so even in a free plan you could power your 25 side projects for free, which the other providers restrict to just one. I sincerely love their service and would continue to be a user for them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think perhaps they could optimize their cluster closing time. Tho fast, I wish it'd be quicker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use Aiven for Kafka because I wanted a 'vanilla' Kafka installation that was supported and maintained by others. This avoids the overhead of operating it myself but also ensures we have a native Kafka deployment, without the overhead of adopting a more elaborate binary-compatible platform for features we are unlikely to require, and at great cost.

Aiven for Kafka was simple to set up and establish within our infrastructure, and comes with a range of extensibility options that ensures we are able to grow our offering in future (for example, built-in support for Kafka Connect and schema registry are bonuses we may want to use in future). I am especially pleased with the real-time dashboard updates in Aiven's console and the ability to manipulate services via Terraform, as this enables Aiven to plug into our existing cloud operations architecture easily.

Aiven's costs for its services are transparent, which is appreciated in a world of used car salesman 'talk to us for pricing' models which add friction to the purchasing process of otherwise commodity services.

The service is well documented and does what it says on the tin, so there has been no need to speak with support at any time during its operation; it just works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some capabilities are missing or clunky, especially on configuration management and security. A key feature I wish Aiven for Kafka supported is the ability to authenticate via mTLS using our own root of trust, as this would enable the Aiven for Kafka service to be embedded with our existing service mesh mechanism (a feature I have relied upon in past self-hosted deployments). At present, we must distribute login details to each consumer of the service, which adds frustrating amounts of overhead in generating, distributing and managing the lifecycle of secret material.

Additionally, the ability to embed Kafka into our existing control-loop based declarative workflow for setting up users, topics and ACLs would be appreciated, i.e. by allowing easier adoption of Kubernetes-based operators for declaring these resources. There are third-party solutions but they require customisation or are not intended for use in this model, which makes them tricky to adopt.

More generally, the Aiven Terraform provider would benefit from some significant overhaul to make resource names more consistent and improve the documentation around certain behaviours. The Aiven team appears to be in the process of migrating abstractions within the provider around 'organization' objects, with old and new abstractions present and it not being clear that one has been deprecated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The website makes it easy to create and test different configurations. I also had an occation to use support and they where very responsive and helped me resolve my questions quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For lower, not production envirments I would like to be able to create smaller configurations to cost optimize. Especially in development where one engineer maybe using the brokers for small tests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

After so much research I found Aiven and the best services always in the Free Tier to continue learning IT skills with easy use and implementation and integration, Large storage capacity for those who will have a high frequency of use, in addition to having easy access to user support . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think at least SQL selects on Database Free Services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We used mongo and kafka managed services from Aiven. Things are quick. Ochestration has done with in few clicks. No need to worry about monitoring and all everything is self-managed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data transfer charges between cloud accounts are a thing to worry. Need to check it further Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.