Managed solution, ease of use, delegated access. Good support. We used Kafka as a managed service.

Open Source products, good for developers

For me as a new user what's best about Aiven for MySQL is how easy it makes managing databases - setting up and maintaining them is a breeze. It's super helpful because I can focus more on using the database and less on the technical stuff plus they have a FREE subscriptions but you can upgrade if you want more projects.