Aiven

Aiven is a "data infrastructure" vendor. They provide fully managed, hosted versions of open-source technologies (Kafka, Flink, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL) on your choice of cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP). They focus on a pure open-source experience with enterprise SLAs.

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Why use it in EDA? Aiven is the champion of "Multi-Cloud." If you want to run Kafka on AWS today but might move to Azure tomorrow, Aiven makes that trivial. They also allow you to deploy a complete EDA stack (Kafka for transport, Flink for processing, ClickHouse for analytics) within a single console.

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How do we use it?

• The Complete Stack: Spinning up Kafka, Flink, and ClickHouse in one place.
• Multi-Cloud Strategy: Running the exact same infrastructure across different cloud providers.

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