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Does its job perfectly.
What do you like best about the product?
What distinguishes aiven from other database providers is it's super quick to get a cluster up and running, followed by a generous 300$ coupon so you can tinker around and utilise the platform wholeheartedly. It also gives an option to run upto 25 clusters, so even in a free plan you could power your 25 side projects for free, which the other providers restrict to just one. I sincerely love their service and would continue to be a user for them.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think perhaps they could optimize their cluster closing time. Tho fast, I wish it'd be quicker.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I could create multiple database clusters up and running and power my side projects hassle free.
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Ease of Use coupled with power
What do you like best about the product?
Highly available Kafka features along with a significant level of redundancy. Seemless integration with a lot of popular tools like Prometheus. Its also abstracts the underlaying infrastructure management.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can't comment on drawbacks at present. Need to spend more time with the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Opensource, pricing & enterprise wise adoption
Happy customer but improvments could be done
What do you like best about the product?
how easy it is to setup topics, schemas, give acces etc. Easy integration
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to have a better interface to be able to read messages in a topic based on avro schemas. Now all we can see is encoded data, which is useless
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
exchanging data with different customers
An easy-to-use, cost-effective managed Kafka service.
What do you like best about the product?
I use Aiven for Kafka because I wanted a 'vanilla' Kafka installation that was supported and maintained by others. This avoids the overhead of operating it myself but also ensures we have a native Kafka deployment, without the overhead of adopting a more elaborate binary-compatible platform for features we are unlikely to require, and at great cost.
Aiven for Kafka was simple to set up and establish within our infrastructure, and comes with a range of extensibility options that ensures we are able to grow our offering in future (for example, built-in support for Kafka Connect and schema registry are bonuses we may want to use in future). I am especially pleased with the real-time dashboard updates in Aiven's console and the ability to manipulate services via Terraform, as this enables Aiven to plug into our existing cloud operations architecture easily.
Aiven's costs for its services are transparent, which is appreciated in a world of used car salesman 'talk to us for pricing' models which add friction to the purchasing process of otherwise commodity services.
The service is well documented and does what it says on the tin, so there has been no need to speak with support at any time during its operation; it just works.
Aiven for Kafka was simple to set up and establish within our infrastructure, and comes with a range of extensibility options that ensures we are able to grow our offering in future (for example, built-in support for Kafka Connect and schema registry are bonuses we may want to use in future). I am especially pleased with the real-time dashboard updates in Aiven's console and the ability to manipulate services via Terraform, as this enables Aiven to plug into our existing cloud operations architecture easily.
Aiven's costs for its services are transparent, which is appreciated in a world of used car salesman 'talk to us for pricing' models which add friction to the purchasing process of otherwise commodity services.
The service is well documented and does what it says on the tin, so there has been no need to speak with support at any time during its operation; it just works.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some capabilities are missing or clunky, especially on configuration management and security. A key feature I wish Aiven for Kafka supported is the ability to authenticate via mTLS using our own root of trust, as this would enable the Aiven for Kafka service to be embedded with our existing service mesh mechanism (a feature I have relied upon in past self-hosted deployments). At present, we must distribute login details to each consumer of the service, which adds frustrating amounts of overhead in generating, distributing and managing the lifecycle of secret material.
Additionally, the ability to embed Kafka into our existing control-loop based declarative workflow for setting up users, topics and ACLs would be appreciated, i.e. by allowing easier adoption of Kubernetes-based operators for declaring these resources. There are third-party solutions but they require customisation or are not intended for use in this model, which makes them tricky to adopt.
More generally, the Aiven Terraform provider would benefit from some significant overhaul to make resource names more consistent and improve the documentation around certain behaviours. The Aiven team appears to be in the process of migrating abstractions within the provider around 'organization' objects, with old and new abstractions present and it not being clear that one has been deprecated.
Additionally, the ability to embed Kafka into our existing control-loop based declarative workflow for setting up users, topics and ACLs would be appreciated, i.e. by allowing easier adoption of Kubernetes-based operators for declaring these resources. There are third-party solutions but they require customisation or are not intended for use in this model, which makes them tricky to adopt.
More generally, the Aiven Terraform provider would benefit from some significant overhaul to make resource names more consistent and improve the documentation around certain behaviours. The Aiven team appears to be in the process of migrating abstractions within the provider around 'organization' objects, with old and new abstractions present and it not being clear that one has been deprecated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiven for Kafka is providing a hosted service to remove the obligation on us to run Kafka ourselves, which would otherwise have added huge overhead in running infrastructure, and also huge risk to the business in terms of justifying ongoing maintenance activities. Aiven performs this for us, so we just use the service without thinking very much about the operational needs of keeping it running, maintained and highly available.
Simple and intuitive
What do you like best about the product?
The UI/ console is very simple and intuitive eleminating abstracting complexities whic meks it easy to use, understnd and visualise. The Terraform support also makes the life of developer easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Though not frequent and I personally have not experienced any, I have the team complain about slow message processing particularly in non-prod environments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We require a highly available messaging queue for audit logging evenet processing. Aiven provides both availability and scalability for this purpose.
A good alternate for Cloud SQL
What do you like best about the product?
The infrastructure setup is comparatively easier and upside being cost is lower
What do you dislike about the product?
Can't comment on downsides as we are doing the infra migration to Aiven for the first time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mainly pricing and also it is enterprise wise adoption
Discovering Managed Kafka
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of management. Decrease in amount of manual effort required to manage Kafka.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of control and access to Kafka brokers and ability to manually change the infrastructure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Manual effort to manage Kafka.
Good for quick start, good as managed solution
What do you like best about the product?
Managed solution, ease of use, delegated access.
Good support. We used Kafka as a managed service.
Good support. We used Kafka as a managed service.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing. Engineers were happy, business objective were delivered. Now and then, you would need to report on SOC2 compliance, but this is expected for a PaaS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
General purpose real-time queue solution. AWS style PaaS.
A good experience with apache kafka
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity to create an instance with terraform
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
However we have a slack connection with aiven so, it's not a big deal.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
it makes me able to communicates / expose my data to my consumers
Aiven and kafka
What do you like best about the product?
Aiven makes managing our kafka easier than without
What do you dislike about the product?
The integration can be a little challenging
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Aiven is helping us stream our kafka messages
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