Open source data infra-structure, made simple.

Get production-ready Kafka, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, OpenSearch, and more — on any cloud, in minutes, with no infra ops required — all backed by Aiven’s 99.99% SLA.

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Products

The open source data tools you already use, fully managed.

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Real-time data streams

Apache Kafka®

Power your event-driven architecture and real-time data streaming pipelines with enterprise-grade Kafka as a Service.

Effortless database

PostgreSQL®

Build scalable, resilient applications with a fully managed, high-availability PostgreSQL database as a service.

Analytics at scale

ClickHouse®

Fast, resource-effective columnar DB for real-time analytics.

Instant search

OpenSearch®

Deploy a powerful, distributed search and analytics engine for log analysis, application monitoring, and full-text search.

Valkey™

Fast in-memory caching

MySQL

Scalable SQL

Metrics

Scalable Prometheus query solution

Grafana®

Data visualization and analytics platform

Free tier

Build for free on Aiven

The Aiven Free Tier gives you always-on Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and OpenSearch on the same infrastructure as our paid plans. Build, learn, prototype - no credit card, no time limit.

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Platform

The data platform for engineers

Run on any cloud, or bring your own — we handle the connections, security, and scaling across clouds.
Manage all your services from a single API and console.
Deploy services directly into your own cloud account for data residency and VPC peering.

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Why Aiven?

	Aiven Platform	DIY/Self-hosted	Basic Cloud Service
Infra ops	Zero Fully managed, 99.99% uptime SLA	Constant You manage patching, scaling, failures, etc.	Partial You still tune, and manage versions and plugins
Cloud	Any AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean, EU Sovereign Cloud, etc.	One Locked to your hardware/VPC	One Locked to the provider’s ecosystem
Cost	Predictable  All-inclusive TCO	Unpredictable  High ops, infra, and downtime costs	Nightmarishly complex Pay-per-API-call, I/O, etc.
Migrations	Easy  No-downtime tools	Hard  High-risk, manual process	Hard High friction to migrate out
Support	24/7  Expert developer support	You  (And community forums)	Account-level (Often a paid add-on)

Trusted by developers. Built for builders.

"The team used to spend up to 90% of the day doing maintenance, patching and upgrades. That's all handled by Aiven now, freeing up the team to focus on business projects."

La Redoute

Automated database migrations, enabling the team to move 25 databases in a single day

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"We reduced the TCO of running our Apache Kafka clusters by 72% which equates to a saving of millions of dollars each year."

Claroty

Cut Kafka TCO by 72% and saved millions annually with Aiven's Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)

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"Thanks to tiered storage, we've reduced our Kafka storage by around 80% which has saved us a huge amount of money — and all without any latency issues."

WalkMe

Slashed Kafka storage costs by 80% with Tiered Storage while handling over 100,000 events per second

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Upcoming events

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Explore our online and in-person events and webinars to learn, connect, and discover all that Aiven has to offer.

Sep 17, 2026

Entwickler Summit Berlin

07:00 - 20:00 UTC

Colosseum cinema, Berlin, Germany

Oct 21, 2026 - Oct 22, 2026

VDS 2026

07:00 - 20:00 UTC

City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Spain

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Open source data infra-structure, made simple.