Aiven

About

Aiven is an AI-ready open source data platform company that empowers organizations to derive greater value from their data. The company's cloud platform offers a combination of open-choice services designed to rapidly stream, store, and serve data across major cloud providers with simplicity and security, enabling businesses to power innovation. Aiven is trusted by thousands of customers, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises across diverse sectors in more than 60 countries, to confidently and quickly create next-generation applications. The core mission of Aiven is to manage cloud data infrastructure, allowing developers to focus on their primary role: creating applications. This approach helps businesses accelerate their application innovation by providing cloud-native, self-managing data infrastructure on various cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Aiven has established a global presence with hubs in key cities including Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, London, Singapore, Sydney, Auckland, Austin, and Toronto. The company champions open source technology, which is central to its operations and culture, emphasizing open-mindedness and a commitment to contributing back to the global community. Aiven's platform supports a wide array of popular open-source data technologies such as PostgreSQL®, Apache Kafka®, OpenSearch®, ClickHouse®, MySQL®, Redis™, and more. It ensures end-to-end security with dedicated virtual machines, encryption in transit and at rest, automated security updates, and compliance with numerous standards including ISO 27000-series, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS. Aiven's services are designed for high availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, automatic failover, and zero downtime during maintenance and migrations. The company also offers a 'Bring Your Own Cloud' (BYOC) model, allowing customers to leverage their existing cloud agreements and maintain greater control over their data infrastructure while benefiting from Aiven's managed services.