Aiven is retiring the Hobbyist plan for Aiven for OpenSearch®. From July 31, 2026, new customers cannot create Hobbyist services. Projects already running a Hobbyist service keep full access: existing services continue to run, and you can still create new Hobbyist services in those projects until further notice.We are making this change to improve the overall product experience. The current techni…
We are excited to announce that PostgreSQL 18 is now the default version for all new Aiven for PostgreSQL® services.What this means for you:New services: When creating a new Aiven for PostgreSQL service, the platform will now automatically select version 18 as the default.Existing services: Your currently running services on versions other than 18 remain unaffected and will continue to operate nor…
This release adds support for new service configuration and integration options, while improving day-to-day Terraform stability. Highlights for this release:Organization user groups are easier to manage. Group name and description can now be updated in place instead of forcing resource recreation.PostgreSQL database reads are more reliable for services with larger database lists through pagination…
Aiven for ClickHouse 26.3 LTS is available in Early Availability. You can use it for new services or upgrade an existing service from version 25.8.This release enables asynchronous inserts by default, makes full-text search generally available, introduces materialized common table expressions (CTEs), improves Map lookup performance, and includes upstream changes from versions 25.9 through 26.3.Bef…
Aiven MCP is now generally available. It connects supported AI assistants to the Aiven platform so you can explore and manage your Aiven projects and services using natural language.With Aiven MCP, you can:View projects, services, integrations, plans, cloud regions, and service status.Create and manage supported Aiven services.Review service metrics, logs, and configuration.Find information from t…
Aiven for OpenSearch® now supports hot/warm data tiering on custom plans. This feature is in limited availability; contact Aiven to request access.Clusters with tiered storage run two groups of data nodes: hot nodes on fast storage for active data, and warm nodes on larger, lower-cost storage for older data that is queried less often. Index State Management (ISM) policies automate the full lifecyc…
We’ve added support for Valkey 9.1, a release focused on new features and improvements for security, observability, performance, efficiency, and tooling.Key highlightsSecurity: database-level ACLs, Lua moved to a module, TLS improvementsObservability: main/IO thread usage metrics, JSON loggingPerformance: new IO threading model, faster streams/sorted sets/GETsEfficiency: reduced memory for strings…
Aiven for MySQL® now supports 16 new advanced configuration parameters. Users can configure persistent, service-wide global defaults for query behavior, InnoDB full-text search, and query optimizer settings.The new parameters are available through the Aiven Console, CLI, API, and Terraform, and span four categories:Toggles: automatic_sp_privileges, innodb_optimize_fulltext_only, windowing_use_high…
Aiven now supports configuring preferred availability zones for Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect and MirrorMaker 2 services. This extends the existing preferred zones feature from Kafka to these services, giving you control over where service nodes are placed within a cloud region.Use preferred zones to reduce cross-AZ data transfer costs, lower latency between service nodes and client applications…
Added support for the Azure Key Vault secret provider in Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect. The Azure Key Vault provider reads secrets from Azure Key Vault and lets connector configurations reference them using ${PROVIDER_NAME:SECRET_KEY}.This keeps sensitive credentials, such as connection strings, API keys, and passwords, out of connector configuration files.You can configure the Azure Key Vault s…
Quick connect for Aiven for Apache Kafka® is now a single-page guided flow. It replaces the previous multi-step setup flow, reducing the steps needed to connect Kafka clients and tools.The updated flow brings topic setup, authentication, permissions, generated code, and project templates into one place, making it easier to test your service and start producing and consuming messages.For more infor…
You can now switch an existing classic topic in Aiven for Apache Kafka® to a diskless topic without copying data or renaming the topic.The topic remains available during the switch. Records written before the switch remain readable from the classic topic log. Records written after the switch are stored in the diskless topic.Topics can be switched using the Aiven CLI or Aiven API. This feature is i…
Karapace has been updated to version 6.2.0 with improvements to OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) support, REST proxy, Schema Registry, metrics, and JSON Schema compatibility.ImprovedREST proxy can forward inbound OIDC bearer tokens to Schema Registry.Schema Registry separates OIDC authentication and authorization for finer access control.FixedFixed JSON Schema compatibility checks that use anyO…
You can now configure Aiven for Apache Kafka® to create new topics as diskless topics automatically when their names match regular expressions you configure. Use this feature when clients or tools can't set diskless.enable=true, reject unknown topic configurations, or create topics dynamically, such as Kafka Connect CDC connectors and MirrorMaker 2.Set up to 32 regular expressions in kafka_diskles…
You can now configure preferred availability zones to control where Aiven places Aiven for Apache Kafka® service nodes within a cloud region.Use preferred availability zones to reduce cross-AZ data transfer costs, better align brokers with client applications, and meet workload placement requirements.You can configure the preferred_zones setting in the Aiven Console, CLI, API, or Terraform on AWS,…
Dedicated node roles for Aiven for OpenSearch® are now in general availability for clusters running version 2.19 and later. You can deploy or upgrade to a cluster using a service plan with node roles. Node roles isolate workloads across specialized node groups, reducing resource contention while improving stability, scalability, and query performance. For details, see Dedicated node roles in Aiven…
Aiven for OpenSearch® now supports cross-cluster replication (CCR). This feature is in limited availability. Contact Aiven to request access.CCR lets you replicate indices, mappings, and metadata from a leader cluster to one or more follower clusters across regions or cloud providers. Use it to place data closer to your users for lower query latency and to spread query-heavy workloads across follo…
Aiven for ClickHouse® 25.3 has scheduled end of availability (EOA) and end of life (EOL) dates.End of availability: July 1, 2026. New service creation is no longer available for version 25.3.End of life: September 30, 2026. Services running version 25.3 are automatically upgraded to version 25.8 after this date.Upgrade services before the EOL date to avoid disruption. Fork a service before upgradi…
You can now enable and configure audit logging for Aiven for Apache Kafka® services from your service configuration.Audit logging records Kafka client activity to help support security reviews and compliance workflows. Audit logs can include authenticated activity, unauthenticated access attempts, and allowed or denied Kafka operations, depending on the configuration.Enabling or updating audit log…
OpenSearch® long-term support (LTS) version 3.6 is now available for Aiven for OpenSearch services. Apply this version on your services to benefit from the 3.6 improvements.Highlights32x vector storage compression: 1-bit Scalar Quantization delivers 32x compression across Faiss and Lucene engines with 24% better recall and 15% lower latency. Cost and performance win on semantic search or RAG pipel…
You can now set up enhanced compliance bring your own cloud (BYOC) clouds yourself, without help from Aiven. When you create an AWS custom cloud, choose a compliance deployment model to run Aiven services in your own AWS account under specific compliance requirements:hipaa for healthcare workloads that handle protected health information (PHI) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountabil…
This version of the Aiven Terraform Provider adds support for Apache Kafka share groups, audit logging, and enhanced database configuration options.New fields in the Aiven for Apache Kafka resource support configuration for Kafka share groups: controlling group membership limits, heartbeat intervals, session timeouts, record locking, and delivery counts.Kafka audit logging is now available through…
The BigQuery connector is upgraded to version 2.14.0, which improves write reliability when the connector retries BigQuery writes or runs GCS batch load jobs.This version includes the following change:Makes putAttemptId unique across BigQuery internal write retries and GCS batch idempotent load jobs to prevent duplicate processing during write operations.For more information, see the GitHub releas…
These endpoints will be sunset in 3 months on 22 September 2026:GET /v1/account/{account_id}/billing-group: Use GET /v1/organization/{organization_id}/billing-groups instead.GET /v1/billing-group: Use GET /v1/organization/{organization_id}/billing-groups instead.POST /v1/billing-group: Use POST /v1/organization/{organization_id}/billing-groups instead.PUT /v1/billing-group/{billing_group_id}: Use…
Aiven now offers the Developer tier for Aiven for Valkey™: a cost-effective, paid service tier designed for development, testing, and production workloads that do not yet require Professional-tier scale.Compared to the Free or Hobbyist plans, the Developer plan offers increased CPU and RAM per VM. Additionally, unlike the Free plan, Developer-tier services are not automatically powered off due to…
Aiven for MySQL® now supports managing major MySQL versions across your services. You choose which version runs and upgrade on your own schedule.From MySQL 8.4 onwards, Aiven supports two major upstream versions at a time. The latest stable version is the default when you create a new service. To run a specific version, set the mysql_version parameter at creation time, or upgrade an existing servi…
Apache Kafka® 4.2 is now available on Aiven. You can create new services on Kafka 4.2 or upgrade your existing ones.Key features: Shared groups (Kafka queues): Lets multiple consumers read from the same partition for queue-style, scalable consumption. Shared groups require at least three nodes and aren't available on the free or developer tiers.Streams rebalance protocol: Provides centralized reba…
What's happeningAiven for Dragonfly is being discontinued on the Aiven Platform:End of availability (EOA): After 17 June 2026, you can no longer create new services. Existing services will continue to operate until the end of life (EOL) date, but you will not be able to change service plans.End of life (EOL): On 30 September 2026, all active services will be decommissioned and deleted. This action…
PostGIS 3.6.4 is now fully supported on Aiven for PostgreSQL 18.PostGIS has been one of the main blockers for users wanting to upgrade to PostgreSQL 18. That's now resolved. Spatial workloads can make the jump to PG18 with full PostGIS support, including geometry, geography, raster, and topology features.PostGIS 3.6.4 is available on new and upgraded PG18 services, with no changes required on your…
The Couchbase connector for Aiven for Apache Kafka® Connect is updated from version 4.1.11 to 4.3.6.Behavior changeThe auto network detection fallback behavior has changed. The connector now selects the external network when no exact address match exists and the external network is present.If the connector fails to connect after the update, add the following to the connector configuration:couchbas…