Aiven launches Runtime and DataHub enabling AI agents to securely work with live production data

LONDON, 23 September 2026 – Aiven, a provider of managed open source data infrastructure for application and AI development, today announced the general availability of Aiven Runtime and Aiven DataHub.

The new services within the Aiven Data & AI Cloud enable companies from startups to enterprises to run applications and AI agents against production data while maintaining the complete governance, security setup and interoperability of the data being consumed.

“A decade after our founding, we’re seeing that open source data foundations are also critical for production AI. That's because models and clouds will change, but the data underneath has to outlast both. Runtime and DataHub are the first two pieces of the AI agent infrastructure that we’re building at Aiven, and there is so much more to come,” says Oskari Saarenmaa, the CEO and co-founder of Aiven.

Aiven DataHub

Aiven DataHub gives AI agents a map of a company's data: what exists, what it means, where it came from and who can use it, across the systems they already run. Built on open-source DataHub and fully managed by Aiven, it comes with unlimited users and no per-seat licensing, so every team shares the same knowledge.

"Our data was scattered across multiple data silos, making it difficult for agents to understand the context and relationship between them,” said Elad Leev, Staff Engineer, at Dojo, a UK payments provider. "Aiven DataHub gives us lineage, ownership, a shared glossary, basically our business context, in one place. This has helped us cut costs by retiring old dbt models and resolving problems in minutes that used to take hours.

Aiven Runtime

Aiven Runtime enables AI agents and applications to act on live company data while that data stays inside the customer’s existing environment. Runtime is available on AWS and Google Cloud, with Microsoft Azure to follow.

“Building, deploying and sharing software should be as easy as sharing a Google Doc,” said Filip Yonov, VP Developer Services at Aiven. “Getting there means giving agents a place to run, access to the right data and enough context to use it responsibly. Runtime and DataHub are our first steps towards that future, built around Aiven’s core strength: the production data customers already trust us to run.”

About Aiven

Aiven is the data cloud for builders. It runs Kafka for streaming, PostgreSQL for transactions, ClickHouse for analytics, Valkey for caching, OpenSearch for search and DataHub for governance under one managed control plane across AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and other clouds. Every service runs on genuine open source with no proprietary forks, so customer data and workloads stay portable. Aiven handles patching, upgrades, scaling, security, and uptime, so platform and data teams can focus on shipping AI applications rather than managing infrastructure. Aiven is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, with teams across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. Find out more at aiven.io

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