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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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Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/21/2023

"All in one Kafka management"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Aiven for Apache Kafka allows us to manage our Kafka instance very well. We have smooth topic creation with most of the customisations. Also it provides a UI to produce messages, view the messages, partitions, consumer lag in real time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Improvements can be showing timestamp in the header of each message since that data is already there in Kafka. Navigation to topics, info, messages can be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kevin X.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/18/2023

"Highly reliable, configurable, and overall a greal experience!"

5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Everything about Aiven has been great to power our company's analytics and has truly been a set-it-and-forget-it piece of our infrastructure. Aiven has been extremely responsive with their support and has been great at working with us to fit to our custom needs. We have had no notable outages in the last 3 years of our partnership together. It is flexibile with the cloud providers allowed and is very cost effective. Would recommend it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I think the thing that could use the most love would be the initial learning curve on how to set custom specifications. At the beginning we had to use settings that weren't well documented to have everything play smoothly, but the support quickly sorted that out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/17/2023

"Hastle-free Kafka management"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The most helpful features are:

- RESTful API integration for managing outside of the console

- Ease of security credentials setup

- High availability

- Quick provisioning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Downsides, though not critical:

- The pricing structure can be a bit confusing to navigate, which may lead to unexpected costs

- The documentation for the service could be more comprehensive, which can make it harder for beginners to get started Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ricardo T.

Fullstack Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/17/2023

"A good experience overall"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Cool and clean interface that allows me to navigate quickly whenever I need to find some information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I would appreciate some way to search for messages from within the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Entertainment

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/30/2023

"Aiven review after almost 4 years of experience"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I very much like the UI, which is user friendly and easy to access and manage Apache Kafka cluster. Personally I also like the terminal tool (avn) , which makes it more smooth to execute different commands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

My first experience which I like to mention here is the Apache Kafka cluster logs. This is a bit cumbersome to use and scroll in the UI and find a specific date and time details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David D.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/8/2023

"Developer Back End"

5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The easy graphical interface making Apache Kafka easy to use and manage! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The update management.. We had an issue with an automatic update breaking our consumer. This was due to the admin being in out of office. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alireza S.

Sys and network admin

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/29/2023

"Easy way to have ease mind about your data pipelines"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven Platform?

Its realy easy to setup your data pipeline without any complexity about how much cloud provider would charge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven Platform?

There are many more databases that we need but aiven didn't support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/21/2024

"Aiven and kafka"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Aiven makes managing our kafka easier than without Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

The integration can be a little challenging Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Markos Sfikas of Aiven for Apache Kafka

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Thanks for your review. Great to hear you can easily stream messages with Aiven for Apache Kafka.

I would like to understand more about what can be improved so your rating is higher next time. Is there anything specific you have experienced with Aiven for Apache Kafka or would like to have added to the offering?

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/6/2023

"It just works. All the benefits without the hassle"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Simplicty of connecting it with other services, such as Aiven for Apache Flink.

Getting the service set up and ready to go with a click of a button was very nice, having set it up manually once before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

I have a problem that if kafka is slow or high cpu, my API´s sending to it start timing out.

It feels like i will need a pubsub in between my API and kafka to increase reliability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Antoine L.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/27/2023

"First experience with managed kafka"

4/5

What do you like best about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

Simplicity and full of functionnality of the Aiven console Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Aiven for Apache Kafka?

A bit of missing documentation. And some feature not supported in aiven console (deserialization of message with zstd compress for example) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.