Build prototypes, develop side projects, and run small analytics workloads at a predictable cost with the new Aiven for ClickHouse® Developer tier. For $43/month, billed hourly, you get a fully managed, always-on, single-node ClickHouse service with storage, backups, and networking included.The Developer tier includes:2 shared vCPUs, 4 GB RAM, and 25 GB storage.Daily backups, with one backup retai…
Aiven for Valkey™ clustering is now generally available (GA). Clustering distributes your data across multiple shards so your service can handle larger datasets and higher throughput than a single node can support. It includes high availability with automatic failover, replicas on each shard, and automatic resharding when you change the number of primary nodes.Clustered services are backed up auto…
Snowflake Kafka connector version 4.2.1 is now available in early availability for Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect. It uses the Snowpipe Streaming high-performance architecture.The existing Snowflake Sink connector (3.x) remains available and isn't automatically upgraded to 4.x.Version 4.x isn't backward compatible with 3.x. To migrate, review the migration requirements, create a new connector, an…
You can now create and run AI agents on Aiven with Managed Agents, available in limited availability. Use agents to gather information, investigate issues, and perform tasks across Aiven and other systems without managing the underlying infrastructure.For example, you can create an agent that monitors Kafka consumer lag and posts a daily summary to Slack, or an SRE agent that investigates the heal…
This release adds connection Secret routing for PrivateLink, new service configuration options, and several reliability fixes. Important updates include:Choose which service endpoint is published to your connection Secret with the new connInfoSecretRoute field on ServiceUser and ServiceUserRotation. Leaving it unset keeps existing behavior, so Secrets are not rewritten on upgrade.Added Kafka consu…
The kafka_server_app_info_info metric on the Prometheus endpoint reports the version of each Apache Kafka® broker in your Aiven for Apache Kafka® service. Use it to show the broker version on a dashboard or alert when it differs from the version you expect.On Apache Kafka 4.x, use the KafkaVersion label to get the upstream Apache Kafka version. The metric is available after you apply a maintenance…
You can now use availability zone (AZ)-aware listeners with diskless topics in Aiven for Apache Kafka® to route producer and consumer traffic to brokers in the same availability zone, helping reduce cross-AZ network traffic and data transfer costs.AZ-aware listeners provide an AZ-specific Kafka endpoint for each availability zone. Configure your clients to use the endpoint for their AZ without cha…
Enhanced compliance clouds on Google Cloud are now in limited availability. Set them up yourself using bring your own cloud (BYOC) to run Aiven services in your own Google Cloud project under specific compliance requirements.After you have a commitment deal with Aiven and Aiven enables the feature for your organization, create a custom cloud on Google Cloud and choose a deployment model:hipaa for…
This release adds a Kafka Connect custom plugin file resource, a service first-use timestamp, and a new access permission.Highlights for this release:New aiven_kafka_connect_custom_plugin_file resource.The aiven_service_list data source adds services.first_use_time, the timestamp when a service was first used.New file_sha256 field on aiven_flink_jar_application_version that triggers replacement wh…
Incremental backups for Aiven for MySQL® are now generally available. Back up only the changes made since your last full backup, instead of taking a full backup every day.Incremental backups shorten DDL lock times on large databases and reduce how much storage your backups use, because each incremental backup stores only the differences since the last one. You choose which days of the week full ba…
You can now upload your own Kafka Connect plugins to Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect, now in limited availability. This lets you use connectors that aren’t included in the Aiven-managed catalog. To request access, contact the sales team.Organization administrators can manage custom plugins and their versions. Users with access to a standalone Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect service can create conn…
Aiven for Grafana® now supports multiple Grafana major versions running concurrently in the platform. You choose the major version your service runs, and Aiven applies minor and patch updates to it during your service's maintenance window.Aiven supports two major versions at a time: the latest version that is stable on the Aiven Platform, and the previous major version, which continues to receive…
Grafana® 12.4 is now available on Aiven for Grafana®. You can create new services on version 12 or upgrade an existing service to it from the Aiven Console, CLI, API, Terraform provider, or Kubernetes Operator.Grafana 12 changes behavior that your dashboards, data sources, alert rules, and plugins can depend on. For example, a data source UID can now contain only letters, numbers, and dashes, and…
Run Aiven for PostgreSQL® on local NVMe disks on Azure. Storage Optimized plans are built for write-heavy and latency-sensitive workloads that need high IOPS and low write latency.30 plans across the startup, business, and premium tiers16 GiB to 256 GiB of memory, with 400 GiB to 10,625 GiB of storageAt least 180,000 IOPS, scaling with plan sizeBuilt on current-generation hardwareAvailable in 27 A…
Aiven’s AI Gateway provides a unified interface to access multiple AI models through one endpoint.During early availability, the gateway includes:Model catalog: Browse all available AI models through a centralized model list.Access keys: Manage API keys to control access and track usage.Metrics: Monitor AI Gateway usage and spend with detailed metrics on which models are used and estimated costs.M…
You can now use Aiven’s build-in identity provider (IdP), Aiven Identity, to restrict access to your Runtime applications. Give users in your organization access to an app without configuring an external IdP.More information on adding Aiven Identity as an authentication method to your Runtime applications is available in the Aiven docs.
PG Studio is now generally available for Aiven for PostgreSQL® services. What started as an AI-powered SQL editor is now a full SQL console built into the Aiven Console, split into three tools: SQL editor, Tables, and Extensions. Explore your data, run queries, and manage extensions without leaving your browser or setting up a local client.What's new since early availabilitySeparate SQL editor and…
Controlled upgrade pipelines are now generally available. Link services of the same type in an ordered sequence, so you can validate a maintenance update in a lower environment, such as staging, before it reaches production.This feature is included with the Advanced or Premium support tier. Manage upgrade pipelines using the Aiven CLI, API, Terraform provider, or Kubernetes operator. Console suppo…
This release adds new configuration options for Kafka, OpenSearch, Valkey, MySQL, and Datadog integrations.Highlights for this release:Aiven for Kafka: Adds support for Kafka version 4.3 and Karapace 6.2.4.New group_consumer_* settings in Kafka for the consumer rebalance protocol.Aiven for Kafka Connect adds a custom_plugins option for installing plugins uploaded through the custom file service.Ai…
Aiven for MySQL® has been upgraded to the latest minor version 8.4.11, which contains a variety of fixes to previous versions. Removing bugs and security vulnerabilities increases database performance, improves service availability, and helps ensure business continuity. Existing instances will be scheduled for a rolling upgrade as part of our standard maintenance cycle.Notable changes in this rele…
The Snowflake Kafka connector has been upgraded to version 3.5.4 to address security findings. This release updates Apache Kafka to version 3.9.2 and Jackson to version 2.18.6.For more information, see the Snowflake Kafka connector 3.5.4 release notes.
OpenSearch® version 3.8 is now available for Aiven for OpenSearch® services. Apply this version on your services to benefit from the 3.8 improvements.HighlightsFaster vector ingestion: Base64-encoded vector ingestion for knn_vector fields cuts network payload by 74%, delivering up to 4.16x higher bulk ingestion throughput and 83% lower median latency. A benefit for anyone running large-scale seman…
You can now add OpenID Connect (OIDC)-compliant identity providers like Auth0, Microsoft Entra ID, and Okta, to restrict access to your Runtime applications. By default, applications are publicly accessible to anyone with the URL. Adding an identity provider to an application lets you secure your application by controlling which users and groups can access it. You can add multiple identity provide…
Cross-cluster search for Aiven for OpenSearch® is now in limited availability. Connect your Aiven for OpenSearch service to another OpenSearch cluster and query indices on both clusters in a single search request.You can now:Manage remote clusters in the Aiven Console, from the Cross-cluster search section on your service's overview page. Add a remote cluster to search, or allow another cluster to…
Apache Kafka 4.3 is now available for Aiven for Apache Kafka services on both Classic and Standard service types, and is now the default version for newly created services. This release focuses on stability and reliability improvements over 4.2.For more information, see the Apache Kafka 4.3 release notes.
Aiven for PostgreSQL® now supports Data API, a new way to turn your database into a backend. It exposes your tables as secure REST endpoints directly from the Aiven Console, without backend code to write or host.Data API is powered by PostgREST and appears under Connect > Data API in the service menu. Key capabilities:Instant REST endpoints: generated from your database schema, with GET, POST, PAT…
TimescaleDB extension version 2.30.2 is now available for Aiven for PostgreSQL®. This release introduces performance improvements and bug fixes. Upgrade to 2.30.2 at your earliest convenience to make sure you use the most robust and secure version available.For details on all TimescaleDB releases, see the release notes.
Karapace 6.2.4 is now available as a maintenance update for Aiven for Apache Kafka®.New featureSchema migration with IMPORT mode: Migrate schemas from another schema registry and keep their original schema IDs and version numbers. You can set IMPORT mode for the entire registry or for a single subject. To export and import schemas between registries, use the sr_migrate.py migration script.Improvem…
You can now directly connect your Runtime applications with Aiven for MySQL and Aiven for ClickHouse® services through the Aiven Console, API, or CLI.More information about Aiven Runtime and integrating services is available in the documentation.
Aiven for OpenSearch® now supports the ML Commons plugin that lets you run machine learning inference within your cluster. You can generate embeddings, rerank search results, and integrate language models using an OpenSearch-provided pretrained model deployed on your cluster, or an externally hosted model accessed through a remote connector.Learn more in ML Commons for Aiven for OpenSearch® and En…