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What is Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Aiven for Apache Kafka® is a fully managed distributed event streaming service, that can be deployed in the cloud of your choice. Aiven for Apache Kafka is ideal for event-driven applications, near-real-time data transfer and data pipelines, streaming analytics, and any use case that requires moving huge amounts of real-time data between applications and systems. With Aiven for Apache Kafka you can set up fully managed Kafka clusters in less than 10 minutes — using the Aiven web console or programmatically via Aiven’s API, CLI, Terraform provider or Kubernetes operator. You can easily connect it to your existing tech stack with a fully managed Apache Kafka Connect service with over 30+ connectors. Monitoring your clusters with logs and metrics is also available out of the box via multiple service integrations. Get access to a complete open source ecosystem of streaming technologies and tools around Apache Kafka to fully manage, and operate a real time data infrastructure at scale using: Aiven for Apache Kafka: the core event streaming framework allowing you to transport data within your organization Aiven for Apache Kafka Connect: a fully managed, fully open source, distributed service enabling you to integrate your existing data sources and sinks seamlessly with Aiven for Apache Kafka. Aiven for Apache Kafka MirrorMaker2: a fully managed, fully open source distributed data replication service for cluster to cluster data replication, disaster recovery and geo proximity across multiple regions. Karapace®: a fully open source Kafka Schema Registry that applications can access to serialize and deserialize messages with popular formats such as AVRO, Protobuf and JSON. Aiven for Apache Flink®: a fully managed, fully open source streaming SQL engine for stateful stream processing over your data streams. Klaw: an open source data governance tool that helps enterprises exercise Apache Kafka® topic and schema governance. Aiven is ISO / IEC 27001: 2013, SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA compliant. Check our pricing and try our free 30-day trial at https://aiven.io/kafka.

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Product Description

Aiven for Apache Kafka is a fully managed streaming platform, deployable in the cloud of your choice. Snap it into your existing workflows with the click of a button, automate away the mundane tasks, and focus on building your core apps.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

NO VENDOR LOCK-IN
100% Open Source, you can take your cluster anywhere you want. Launch new clusters AND move clusters between different cloud providers with a few clicks.

BRING YOUR OWN CLOUD (BYOC)
For strict control requirements, you have the option to set up Aiven services within your own Cloud Provider account. The services can be managed through the Aiven console, and the user experience remains the same as with the regular Aiven service model.

LATEST KAFKA VERSION AND FEATURES
You’ll always get access to the latest Kafka version within a few weeks of release. We offer the most features of any solution on the market, so you have a lot of options with your deployment.

WORKFLOW AND COMPLIANCE
You can deploy our Kafka solution via our web console, API, CLI and Terraform. We’re compliant with all major governance standards, which makes things easier if your company has strict requirements.

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Dawid W.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/27/2023

"Great managed services for our organization"

5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Aiven for Apache Kafka helps our organization, and software team to forget about time-costly maintenance. Each upgrade to the LTS is effortless. Additionally, with the DataDog integration, our organization can collect all the necessary metrics and statistics that help us with maintaining our business in a healthy state. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

- Missing MongoDB support,

- Missing long-term contract option (With potential saving plans),

- Missing plan between migration from Startup-2 to Business-4 (It's costly migration). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka

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Hi Dawid,

Thanks for the review and trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka!

Great to hear that maintaining your Kafka infrastructure is a lot easier with Aiven.

Regarding MongoDB support, we provide both source and sink connectors from/to MongoDB. You can access the full list of connectors here: https://docs.aiven.io/docs/products/kafka/kafka-connect/concepts/list-of-connector-plugins

Regarding long-term contract options as well as plan migration from Startup-2 to Business-4 you can reach out to our team and they will be able to help you. Feel free to submit this form here: https://aiven.io/contact

Thanks again

Best

Markos

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Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/21/2023

"Works great for everything I need as a data engineer"

5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Simple and intuitive for what I need to do about 99% of the time. It doesn't take a tutorial to do the basics and necessary things required. Compared to confluent this was much easier to jump into and do what I need to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

It works well for simple things, but for more complex queries it does not. Searching for existing messages and being able to copy the message as a raw json would be a great addition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VAIBHAV H.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/15/2023

"good platform user friendly"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven Platform?

grafana, prometeus and loki topics management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven Platform?

metrics that is use to measure some traffic and consumer lag Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/1/2024

"Simple to use solution across the cloud platform"

3/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Fully managed kafka solution which is simple to use across multiple cloud platform with full set of kafka capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Struggle with the connectivity and integration with the existing onprem implementations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka

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Hello,

Thanks for your review and trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka.

It's great to hear you're enjoying the simplicity of using Aiven for Apache kafka across different cloud platforms.

Can you elaborate on the challenges you are facing when connecting/integrating with existing on-prem implementations? We would like to understand the challenges you are facing and see how these can be resolved.

You can always reach out to our support team here for additional guidance: https://docs.aiven.io/docs/platform/howto/project-support-center#support

Best

Markos

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Verified User in Sports

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/22/2024

"A good experience with apache kafka"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The simplicity to create an instance with terraform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The support ticket that is frustating, no live chat in case of outage,

However we have a slack connection with aiven so, it's not a big deal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka

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Hello!

Thanks for your review and trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka.

Great to hear you leverage the simplicity of Aiven's tooling like Terraform to create new instances.

I will share your feedback regarding live chat support with our team, however for more direct communication, you use Slack as you pointed correctly.

Thanks again for your trust in Aiven!

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/5/2023

"Easy to use and easier to configure"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Ease to configure the roles and access controls. Very easy to create topic and gives you a hollistic view of configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Some spaces takes a lot of time to load, for example user profiles takes a lot of time to load. Sometimes, when you are trying to see the members for projects, it takes a lot more time to render list of 50 users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka

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Hello!

Thanks for submitting your review.

It's great to hear you are enjoying the ease of configuration and use of ACLs in Aiven for Apache Kafka.

Thank you for bringing to our attention the longer loading times for user profiles. We will look into this further.

You can also contact our support team directly in the Aiven console. For more information, see here: https://docs.aiven.io/docs/platform/howto/project-support-center

Thanks again for your trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka

Markos

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/15/2024

"Discovering Managed Kafka"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven Platform?

Ease of management. Decrease in amount of manual effort required to manage Kafka. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven Platform?

Lack of control and access to Kafka brokers and ability to manually change the infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Broadcast Media

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/15/2023

"Kafka working as espected"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Simple to deploy. Simple to scale. Integrates well to our monitoring services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Lack of backup/restore possibilities. Would like an option to at least have transaction logs (backup/restore option) for specific topics that requires retention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka

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Thank you for your review!

Tiered Storage in Aiven for Apache Kafka is currently in Limited Availability (more information here: https://ideas.aiven.io/discovery/roadmap/feature/127968) and will be coming to Early availability soon.

This could be an option for larger retention times in your clusters.

Thanks again for your trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka.

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Verified User in Consumer Goods

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/10/2023

"Easy and ready to use production grade Kafka cluster."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

For my use case, it's the dashboard, it helps me to debug issues easier when setting up a new project which uses Kafka, and also helps me to investigate issues like consumer lags, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

There is nothing to dislike, but I wish I had more advanced debugging tools like filtering messages in a topic. features like `trubka` cli provides, I know it might not be relevant in large scale, but at least having tools to make life easier for these kind of investiagtions is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/9/2023

"Kafka provider must try!"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Example of client source code in various languages, friendly UI, easy explorer features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

It is hard to connect from the local environment and requires a cert file that's hard to implement in the first time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka

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Hello!

Thanks for your review! Grreat to hear that Aiven for Apache Kafka minimizes your efforts in setup, monitoring, and permission management for your data streaming workloads.

We appreciate your input and valuable feedback.

If you have additional feedback for the Aiven product team, you can directly influence our development roadmap by submitting your ideas here: https://ideas.aiven.io/

Thanks again for your trust in Aiven for Apache Kafka!

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Markos

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