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Companies interested in a powerful managed Apache Kafka service
About Aiven for Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka as a fully managed service, with zero vendor lock-in and a full set of capabilities to build your streaming pipeline. Set up fully managed Kafka in less than 10 minutes — directly from our web console or programmatically via our API, CLI, Terraform provider or Kubernetes operator. Easily connect it to your existing tech stack with over 30 connectors, and feel confident in your setup with logs and metrics available out of the box via the service integrations. A fully managed distributed data streaming platform, deployable in the cloud of your choice. Ideal for event-driven applications, near-real-time data transfer and pipelines, stream analytics, and any other case where you need to move a lot of data between applications — and quickly. With Aiven’s hosted and managed-for-you Apache Kafka, you can set up clusters, deploy new nodes, migrate clouds, and upgrade existing versions — in a single mouse click — and monitor them through a simple dashboard.
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Starting Price:
$200 per month
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Free Trial available.
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Aiven
Founded: 2016
Finland
aiven.io/kafka
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