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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.
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Great cloud simplification platform
What do you like best about the product?
Its niche focus on PostgreSQL. Companies who are able to focus on one main language can expand on it in the future.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing. Seems like a great product with a great marketing team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solving Cloud-related problems
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
High availability cloud database solution
What do you like best about the product?
Failovers are pretty smooth
High reliability record
High reliability record
What do you dislike about the product?
Low support for querying logs and metrics within the platform -- need to export
Customer support not always helpful
Customer support not always helpful
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
High availability cloud database -- allows us to provide a high availability service to our customers
This is a very good product for education. in my class all the students use it.
What do you like best about the product?
for the moment I have used mysql and postgre I find that it is the best. I'm going to try redis and kafka soon I guess it's great.
What do you dislike about the product?
platform for students and teachers that will make things more attractive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Educational problem.
The Best Hosted Cassandra Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Its simplicty to upgrade Cassandra cluster, backup, retention and adding more nodes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently there is nothing i dislike. If there is any, i will definitely update.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were looking for hosted Cassandra, initially we tried out Aws Keyspace, even considered to use AstraDB. But for our usecase, Aiven Hosted cassandra seemed perfect.
Best managed database service I've used
What do you like best about the product?
I love how easily I can spin up services like SQL and Redis databases that too free of cost for my hobby projects.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's an awesome platform but sometimes creating new services may take some time, and I'm totally fine with it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managed Database services,
Caching,
Learning as a developer
Caching,
Learning as a developer
Serviços de alto desempenho, confiança e segurança
What do you like best about the product?
A facilidade para voce conseguir subir serviços pela plataforma deles é sensacional, um painel de fácil aprendizado e sem enrolações.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nada a comentar até o momento, por enquanto tudo esta incrivel.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Uso os serviços da plataforma Aiven tanto para desenvolvimento e produção. Serviços muito confiaveis e de alta segurança.
Best platform for easy setup and use
What do you like best about the product?
I used Aiven for my project demos and hands of its the best experience I could get. The set up process is as simple as it could get and hands on experience
What do you dislike about the product?
As of now i haven't faced even a single issue in the services
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It gives easy solution for my web projects. I use aiven redis and the connection and services are spot on
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