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  • Oct 23, 2026

      New
      Aiven for Apache Kafka®

    Reduce cross-AZ traffic with AZ-aware listeners for diskless topics

    You can now use availability zone (AZ)-aware listeners with diskless topics in Aiven for Apache Kafka® to route producer and consumer traffic to brokers in the same availability zone, helping reduce cross-AZ network traffic and data transfer costs.

    AZ-aware listeners provide an AZ-specific Kafka endpoint for each availability zone. Configure your clients to use the endpoint for their AZ without changing the existing client.id.

    For more information, see Configure AZ-aware listeners for diskless topics.

  • Oct 23, 2026

      New
      Google Cloud
      BYOC

    Self-service enhanced compliance BYOC clouds for Google Cloud (limited availability)

    Enhanced compliance clouds on Google Cloud are now in limited availability. Set them up yourself using bring your own cloud (BYOC) to run Aiven services in your own Google Cloud project under specific compliance requirements.

    After you have a commitment deal with Aiven and Aiven enables the feature for your organization, create a custom cloud on Google Cloud and choose a deployment model:

    • hipaa for healthcare workloads that handle protected health information (PHI) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
    • pci_dss for payment workloads that require cardholder data environment (CDE) isolation under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)

    These clouds keep your data in your Google Cloud project:

    • Services have no public internet access and are reachable only over VPC peering.
    • Outbound traffic, including traffic to Cloud Storage, is proxied through a bastion host.
    • Backups and cold data are stored in Google Cloud Storage buckets in your own project: one bucket for backups and one for cold data.
    • All resources are tagged with their compliance model for governance and audit traceability.
    • Services cannot be forked or migrated to another cloud.

    For more information, see Enhanced compliance BYOC clouds.

  • Oct 20, 2026

      Improved
      Aiven for MySQL

    Aiven for MySQL® incremental backups now generally available

    Incremental backups for Aiven for MySQL® are now generally available. Back up only the changes made since your last full backup, instead of taking a full backup every day.

    Incremental backups shorten DDL lock times on large databases and reduce how much storage your backups use, because each incremental backup stores only the differences since the last one. You choose which days of the week full backups are taken on, and incremental backups are taken in between.

    In the Aiven Console, the Backups page now shows a Backup type column, so you can see which of your stored backups are full and which are incremental. During a restore, you can also follow which backup in the chain is being applied.

    Enable incremental backups with the mysql_incremental_backup advanced configuration option in the Aiven Console, Aiven API, Aiven Provider for Terraform, or Aiven Operator for Kubernetes.

    To get started, see Use Aiven for MySQL® incremental backups.

  • Oct 20, 2026

      New
      Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect

    Custom plugins for Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect (limited availability)

    You can now upload your own Kafka Connect plugins to Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect, now in limited availability. This lets you use connectors that aren’t included in the Aiven-managed catalog. To request access, contact the sales team.

    Organization administrators can manage custom plugins and their versions. Users with access to a standalone Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect service can create connectors from those plugins.
    For more information, see Custom plugins for Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect.

  • Oct 19, 2026

      New
      Aiven for Grafana®

    Aiven for Grafana® 12 is now available

    Grafana® 12.4 is now available on Aiven for Grafana®. You can create new services on version 12 or upgrade an existing service to it from the Aiven Console, CLI, API, Terraform provider, or Kubernetes Operator.

    Grafana 12 changes behavior that your dashboards, data sources, alert rules, and plugins can depend on. For example, a data source UID can now contain only letters, numbers, and dashes, and dashboards and alert rules that reference a rejected data source must be repointed. Review the Grafana upgrade guide and test the upgrade on a fork of your service first. Downgrading to Grafana 11 is not supported.

    Grafana 11.6 remains available and is still the default version for new services.

    For the upgrade steps, see Upgrade the Aiven for Grafana® service version.

  • Oct 19, 2026

      New
      Aiven for Grafana®

    Choose your Aiven for Grafana® major version

    Aiven for Grafana® now supports multiple Grafana major versions running concurrently in the platform. You choose the major version your service runs, and Aiven applies minor and patch updates to it during your service's maintenance window.

    Aiven supports two major versions at a time: the latest version that is stable on the Aiven Platform, and the previous major version, which continues to receive patch updates. You can select a version when you create a service, and upgrade an existing service from the Aiven Console, CLI, API, Terraform provider, or Kubernetes Operator. Downgrading to an earlier version is not supported.

    To get started, see Upgrade the Aiven for Grafana® service version and the Aiven for Grafana® version lifecycle.

  • Oct 15, 2026

      New
      Aiven for PostgreSQL®
      Microsoft Azure

    Storage Optimized plans for Aiven for PostgreSQL® on Azure

    Run Aiven for PostgreSQL® on local NVMe disks on Azure. Storage Optimized plans are built for write-heavy and latency-sensitive workloads that need high IOPS and low write latency.

    • 30 plans across the startup, business, and premium tiers
    • 16 GiB to 256 GiB of memory, with 400 GiB to 10,625 GiB of storage
    • At least 180,000 IOPS, scaling with plan size
    • Built on current-generation hardware
    • Available in 27 Azure regions

    Dynamic disk sizing is not available on these plans, so pick your capacity up front.

    Start a new service on a Storage Optimized plan, or change the plan of a service you already run. For the full plan list and per-region prices, see plans and pricing.

  • Oct 15, 2026

      New
      Aiven for AI Gateway

    AI Gateway now in early availability

    Aiven’s AI Gateway provides a unified interface to access multiple AI models through one endpoint.


    During early availability, the gateway includes:

    • Model catalog: Browse all available AI models through a centralized model list.
    • Access keys: Manage API keys to control access and track usage.
    • Metrics: Monitor AI Gateway usage and spend with detailed metrics on which models are used and estimated costs.

    More information is available in the Aiven documentation.

  • Oct 15, 2026

      New
      Aiven Runtime

    Use Aiven Identity for Runtime authentication

    You can now use Aiven’s build-in identity provider (IdP), Aiven Identity, to restrict access to your Runtime applications. Give users in your organization access to an app without configuring an external IdP.

    More information on adding Aiven Identity as an authentication method to your Runtime applications is available in the Aiven docs.