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As many of us wrap up ahead of the long bank holiday weekend, we’re excited to share that we’re sponsoring OpenSearchCon Europe 2026, and hosting a must-see session. Dmitry Kan will be joined by Hans Kristian Flaatten from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (Nav) to unpack a large-scale migration to managed OpenSearch. Supporting 20,000+ employees and managing around one-third of Norway’s state budget, Nav operates at a scale where reliability, observability, and scalability are mission-critical. In this session, they’ll walk through how Nav transformed their logging platform, moving from legacy systems to a centralized, self-service observability stack powered by OpenSearch. If you’re attending, you won't want to miss the session. You can also book time to chat with us 1:1 here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eBUjfxKx #OpenSearch #Observability #OpenTelemetry #OpenSource #DataPlatforms

To celebrate the launch of Aiven for OpenSearch, we’re extending the deadline for our Aiven Free Tier Competition to win $1000. You now have until April 17th to build and submit your project. Use Aiven for OpenSearch on its own, or combine it with any of our Free Tier services: • Apache Kafka® for streaming • PostgreSQL® or MySQL® for databases • Valkey™ for in-memory data • OpenSearch for search, logs, and analytics Build something useful. Experimental. Weird. Production-worthy. It’s up to you. Details on how to submit your project here: https://lnkd.in/e2MSQ9ij

Getting started with OpenSearch just became much easier. Aiven now offers a free tier for Aiven for OpenSearch, making it simple to explore agentic search and analytics without any upfront cost. Whether you are prototyping, learning or building small scale applications, this is a great way to get hands on with a fully managed service. If you have been looking for a low barrier way to explore OpenSearch, check it out here: https://lnkd.in/ejdqSVpa #OpenSearch #SearchTechnology #AI #RAG #DevTools

We are thrilled to announce that OVHcloud is now officially available as a cloud provider on the Aiven platform! For organizations that prioritize data sovereignty, compliance, and high performance, this partnership is a game-changer. You can now deploy your favorite managed open-source services directly on OVHcloud’s trusted infrastructure. Why does this matter? 🔹 Data Sovereignty: Keep your data within the European ecosystem, fully compliant with GDPR and local regulations. 🔹 Predictable Pricing: Combine Aiven’s transparent pricing with OVHcloud’s industry-leading price-to-performance ratio. 🔹 Multi-Cloud Flexibility: Seamlessly manage your data across different providers while maintaining a consistent experience on Aiven. 🔹 Sustainability: Leverage OVHcloud’s eco-friendly data centers to reduce your digital footprint. At Aiven, our mission is to make the best open-source technologies accessible everywhere. By adding OVHcloud to our family of supported clouds, we’re giving you more choice and more control over where your data lives. Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/ds67AD3c #Aiven #OVHcloud #OpenSource #DataSovereignty

From San Francisco to Toronto. After everything we've shared from San Francisco this week, we're looking forward to hosting our Open Source Data Breakfast meetup in Toronto on Wednesday 1st April. We'll be joined by our customer Jishnu Raj from Priceline, who will talk through how they modernised their event-driven architecture, discussing the trade-offs and the results. Maulik P. and Steve Hutchinson from Aiven will then take the mic to tackle something every data team is quietly wrestling with: the Observability Tax. They'll walk through how a pipeline built on Diskless Kafka, ClickHouse, and Thanos helped cut telemetry costs by 45%+. Grab your spot: https://luma.com/rxabz99w

What a week! The AMER team just wrapped a massive few days at our brand-new, bigger and better Austin office right off the back of a packed event in the Bay Area. 🦀📍 The energy is high and we’re scaling fast. If you’re in Austin and want to build serious open-source infra with a world-class team, we’re hiring. 🚀 Check out our AMER roles here: https://lnkd.in/dhjggzvj #Aiven #AustinTech #OpenSource #Hiring #LifeAtAiven

Context is King just kicked off in San Francisco to a full house! Every AI team hits the same wall when agents break on real-world data, so we’re diving deep into the context infrastructure and "production knobs" actually needed to scale beyond the demo. Oskari Saarenmaa Ville Lehto Clayton Sammüller Marko Bocevski Florian Engel #AI #AIAgents #SanFranciscoTech #ContextisKing #RAG

Nav, Norway’s Labor and Welfare Administration, operates at a scale where logging is anything but small: ➡️ 400GB of log data generated every day ➡️ 60TB of data retained ➡️ 4,000 production changes per week Nav made the shift from its on-premises Elasticsearch logging stack that was becoming harder to scale, maintain and justify to Aiven for OpenSearch® on Google Cloud Platform. ✅ Zero production issues during and after migration ✅ High-throughput log processing at scale ✅ Fully managed service integrated with Kafka ✅ Consumption-based cost model aligned to actual usage ✅ Engineers freed to focus on improvements not maintenance Explore the full case study: https://bit.ly/4uQId0S Hans Kristian Flaatten 🕊️🍉

From your first CREATE TABLE to running a high availability production system, MySQL can power every stage of your journey. In this new blog, we break down how Aiven for MySQL grows with you, whether you are prototyping on a free tier, building an MVP, or scaling to mission critical workloads with built in failover and recovery. Learn how to choose the right plan, scale without downtime, and keep your focus on building instead of managing infrastructure. Read more and find your starting point: https://lnkd.in/e9bGEm2n #MySQL #OpenSource #Startups #CloudComputing #DevOps

Should you keep pushing PostgreSQL, or is it time to bring in a dedicated service? It’s easy to misjudge this moment. Many startups either over-architect too early or wait until performance becomes a problem. Our Startup webinar on March 31 at 11:00 ET / 15:00 UTC tackles the real question: how do you know when PostgreSQL is enough, and when it’s not? Register here: https://lnkd.in/e4nPkkTs #PostgreSQL #Startups #DevOps #DataEngineering