Aiven & AWS join forces to boost data management

Aiven has entered a three-year strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance data management capabilities for customers.

Aiven, recognised for its data and AI platform solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with AWS aimed at facilitating value-driven and real-time data utilisation for customers. The agreement focuses on advancing Aiven's services on AWS to streamline data processing and support applications like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

Aiven has also achieved AWS Data and Analytics Competency status. This accolade is testament to Aiven's expertise in open-source data services available on AWS, which offers businesses advanced data analytics solutions while reducing the complexity of infrastructure management.

Oskari Saarenmaa, Chief Executive Officer of Aiven, expressed satisfaction with the partnership, stating, "Aiven is proud to be recognised as a strategic partner and collaborator with AWS with the signing of the strategic collaboration agreement and to also achieve the Data and Analytics Competency status. Businesses see the value of data and real-time analytics on their revenue growth and customer satisfaction, and cloud choice is instrumental in achieving this. Our strengthened collaboration with AWS combines our data management platform and open-source expertise with AWS cloud technologies, offering our customers agility and scalability in the cloud and, ultimately, empowering them to innovate and respond to changing business needs at pace."

Antonio Alonso Lopez, Director of Partner Management EMEA at AWS, commented on the cooperation, saying, "Aiven is a great example of an AWS partner that is helping customers generate operational and competitive advantage through the AWS Cloud. This strategic collaboration between Aiven and AWS unlocks the power of data tools and analytics for a wide range of business needs, helping more organizations to innovate confidently by leveraging the unmatched scalability and security that the AWS Cloud provides."

idealo, a major European online comparison platform, is one of the businesses benefiting from the Aiven and AWS collaboration. idealo utilises Aiven's services to manage its extensive data on AWS, allowing it to concentrate more on innovation and less on infrastructure management. Wanis Fahmy, Senior Cloud Engineer at idealo, highlighted the importance of rapid data processing, stating, "With 50,000 merchants and 500 million product offers, we handle massive amounts of data so having a fast, reliable data infrastructure is a critical part of our business model. People are interested in the best price now, not five minutes ago. Delays, inaccurate data or intermittent service could impact trust in the idealo brand."

The AWS Data and Analytics Competency status underlines Aiven's position as an AWS Partner Network member offering specialised services designed to assist enterprises with complex data operations on AWS. This status illustrates Aiven's profound AWS expertise and its seamless service integration and functioning on the platform.

Elena Zykova, Vice President of Global Partnerships at Aiven, remarked, "Using data optimally can mean the difference between an organization's success and failure. Aiven is a committed AWS partner and achieving the AWS Data and Analytics Competency status is the next stage in our trajectory. We are all about providing customers with cloud choice and delivering complementary open-source data services that accelerate customer deployments and business advantage."

Aiven continues to expand its presence at AWS events, aiming to enhance its strategic relationship with AWS further, whilst offering additional value to mutual customers through various Aiven cloud services available on AWS Marketplace, including Aiven for Apache Kafka, Aiven for Apache Flink, Aiven for OpenSearch, Aiven for Apache Cassandra, Aiven for PostgreSQL, Aiven for MySQL, and Aiven for Dragonfly.