Aiven for Apache Flink® Beta
A fully managed event stream processing platform, for all your real-time ETL and analytics needs.
How it all works
What is Apache Flink like with Aiven?
Set up fully managed Apache Flink in less than 10 minutes — directly from our web console or programmatically via our API or CLI. Connect it with your Aiven for Apache Kafka and PostgreSQL, process millions of events per minute, and transfer the data through to your connected sinks. Integrate logs and metrics tools for the big — and granular — picture.
Process massive amounts of events with Aiven for Apache Flink
A fully managed distributed data stream processing platform, deployable in the cloud of your choice. Ideal for real-time alerting, enriching, aggregation, filtering and analyzing of events.
Resources:
Get started with Aiven for Apache Flink (docs)
Use Apache Kafka as a data source and sink for your Aiven for Apache Flink
A fully managed distributed data streaming platform, capable of handling millions of events at any one time. You can connect it with Aiven for Apache Flink using our built-in connector to process events using simple SQL language.
Resources:
Aiven for Apache Kafka (web page)
Use PostgreSQL as a data source and sink for your Aiven for Apache Flink
A fully managed SQL relational database, known for reliability, a robust set of features, and exceptionally high performance. You can connect it with Aiven for Apache Flink using our built-in connector to process and enrich your data.
Resources:
Aiven for PostgreSQL (web page)
Use OpenSearch as a data sink for your Aiven for Apache Flink
A fully managed search and analytics suite forked from Elasticsearch. You can connect it with Aiven for Apache Flink using our built-in connector to create real-time views of your streaming data.
Resources:
Aiven for OpenSearch (web page)
Integrate with logging and monitoring tools from Aiven
Easy integrations with Aiven services for M3, Grafana and OpenSearch for enhanced monitoring and logging. Expose your server or service specific metrics to monitor the health of your Flink cluster.
Resources:
Process massive amounts of events with Aiven for Apache Flink
A fully managed distributed data stream processing platform, deployable in the cloud of your choice. Ideal for real-time alerting, enriching, aggregation, filtering and analyzing of events.
Resources:
Get started with Aiven for Apache Flink (docs)
Benefits
Benefits of Aiven’s Apache Flink® as-a-service
Flink is part of a new class of systems that enable rapid data streaming. It’s helping organizations transition away from batch processing towards powerful stream processing.
Aiven’s managed Flink service is a perfect companion to Aiven for Apache Kafka, giving you the ability to perform reliable and scalable real-time filtering, enriching, aggregating, alerting and analyzing of events.
No code to write, only simple SQL statements in Flink.
Apache Flink enables you to easily create real-time streaming analytics and ETL applications by using the familiar SQL language - no coding required.
Managed Apache Flink and Kafka under the same roof.
The combination of Aiven for Apache Kafka and Flink results in the easiest event stream processing solution on the market. You can also add other services like Aiven for PostgreSQL and OpenSearch into the mix.
Super-transparent pricing. No networking costs.
Aiven for Apache Flink comes with all-inclusive pricing. No hidden fees or charges, just one payment that covers networking to data storage, and everything in-between.
99.99% uptime. 100% human support.
Downtime is a disaster for critical applications. That’s why Aiven makes sure you get 99.99% uptime. Plus, you get access to a 100% human support team — in case you need a helping hand.
Customer use cases
How Aiven customers use Apache Flink
Real-time alerting
Make your streaming data immediately actionable by alerting on out-of-bounds values or detecting anomalous patterns.
Ad optimizations
Buyer personalization
Real-time inventory management
Fraud detection
Stock trading
Real-time dashboards
Build real-time views of your streaming data aggregated over time windows. Push the data to the integrated Aiven for OpenSearch for visualizing with dashboards.
User locations
Stock & inventory
IT security
A/B testing
Trend Monitoring
Real-time data transformation
Simplify your streaming data processing by enriching, aggregating or filtering the data only once – before it is passed on to your business applications.
GDPR compliance
Error management
Quality monitoring
Pricing plans
Scale up or down. Pay only for what you use.
All inclusive pricing so you have no end of the month surprises.
No add-on maintenance, networking and storage fees.
Get the data you need to grow your business
Start my 30 day free trialNo credit card required. All features included.Features
Key features of Aiven for Apache Flink
Set up
Flexible, fast and stress-free
Production-ready Apache Flink clusters in 5 minutes
Deploy to the cloud of your choice — currently in Beta, with with two public clouds supported
Integrate with your data source and sink Aiven services with the click of a mouse
All inclusive pricing — network costs are covered, no surprises
Connect
Integrate with your data infrastructure
Connect easily to external data sources with built-in connectors
Secure network connectivity using VPC peering
Integrate to your favorite observability tooling — from Datadog to Prometheus, Jolokia and more — or use Aiven observability tools for enhanced monitoring and logging
Control
DevOps-friendly management and development
Manage your Flink cluster using Aiven Console (GUI) or CLI tools
Easy creation and management of SQL jobs for stream processing
Seamlessly scale your clusters up and down as you go
Guaranteed compatibility with open source software
Migrate easily between clouds and regions
Enjoy
Reliable, secure and zero lock-in
Self-healing platform with 99.99% SLA for uptime
Zero downtime during scaling, upgrading, and other management options
Secure and compliant solution — ISO 27001:2013, SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI/DSS
Resources
Learn more about Aiven for Apache Flink
Aiven Docs
Documentation
Getting started with Aiven for Apache Flink, core concepts, how-to's and more.
See docs
Aiven Blog
Build a Streaming SQL Pipeline
Transform your data with the best streaming combination — Apache Flink and Kafka — all in your favorite language: SQL!
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Aiven Blog
Why Flink?
Find out the whens, whys and hows on processing and analyzing your event data.
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FAQ
Aiven for Apache Flink supports the use of SQL language for event stream processing, as most use cases can be solved easily with continuous SQL queries. Aiven for Apache Flink does not support other types of Flink applications.
Aiven for Apache Flink is currently in beta. This means you can use it for development work and the testing of production-grade workloads, but not for full production yet. You can also use the free Basic level support with the beta service, but other support packages are currently not available. We have updated our SLA terms and conditions to cover the limitations of beta services.
Yes, we offer a Bring Your Own Account (BYOA) model for larger setups. Please contact sales@aiven.io for more information, or check out our BYOA documentation.