Aiven for Apache Kafka® Professional tier
The Professional tier is for production and workload-heavy Aiven for Apache Kafka® services. Create the service on Aiven Cloud or in your own cloud account with Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC).
When to use the Professional tier
Use the Professional tier when you need:
- Higher throughput, storage, topic limits, or SLA than the Developer tier
- Aiven Cloud or BYOC deployment
- Standard Kafka or Classic Kafka on Aiven Cloud
- Kafka Connect on the same service tier
Free and Developer tier services use Classic Kafka.
Deployment
- Aiven Cloud: Default path. New customers create Standard Kafka. If Service type appears, click Standard or Classic. You cannot change the service type after you create the service.
- BYOC: Classic Kafka with fixed plans. You can optionally enable diskless topics on supported custom clouds.
Standard Kafka is available on Aiven Cloud only.
Create a service
- Create an Aiven for Apache Kafka® Professional tier service
- Create an Apache Kafka® service with BYOC
For compute, storage, and network billing, see Pricing for Aiven for Apache Kafka®.
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