Aiven for PostgreSQL

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Overview

About Aiven for PostgreSQL

Aiven PostgreSQL is a database-as-a-service platform that helps businesses in retail, IoT and energy sectors integrate into existing workflow and automate daily tasks including in-place data upgrades, publish/unpublish replicas and more. The centralized platform lets administrators manage data operations such as forking, pooling and restoration using PostGIS and TimescaleDB extensions. Aiven PostgreSQL provides Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering, which lets businesses manage Aiven managed service from within Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure platforms. Users can utilize read-only replicas to streamline operations across master nodes and eliminate latency issues with remote data access. It facilitates integration with several third-party logs, metrics, authentication and dataflow applications such as Prometheus, Datadog, Kafka MirrorMaker, Jolokia, Google OAuth SSO and more. The product is available on hourly and monthly pricing models and support is extended via documentation, live chat and other online measures.

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Aiven for PostgreSQL Features

Features of Aiven for PostgreSQL
Backup and Recovery
Database Conversion
Data Connectors
Data Migration
Data Replication
Data Virtualization
Multiple Programming Languages Supported
Performance Analysis
Secure Data Storage
Access Controls/Permissions

Aiven for PostgreSQL Integrations

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Terraform
Datadog logo
Datadog

Customer Reviews

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Tony K.

Verified User

Commercial Real Estate · 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Aiven provides reliable and secure services, and support has been super knowledgable.

We use Aiven Postgres to deploy new services rapidly. I like how Aiven handles changes to the deployed environment. The support team at Aiven answers questions clearly and are knowledgable.

What they liked
  • Aiven provides premium security for all accounts, not as an add-on feature
Room for improvement

The terraform plugin is not up to full feature parity, but covers most of our use cases

Verified Professional

Computer Software · 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Aiven is the perfect, no-lock-in DB solution

Computer Software

What they liked
  • Aiven makes it trival to move databases between cloud providers
  • The stickiest thing about any hyperscaler (AWS/Google/Azure) is your data - it's a PAIN to move
  • Aiven makes changing your cloud provider a literal point and shoot operation, something that could take weeks of planning trying to from RDS to Cloud SQL or the like
Room for improvement

A little more customization in the pricing would be nice (and the ability to run within a VPC instead of having to peer VPCs), but honestly there's very little I don't like about Aiven

Bradley H.

Verified User

Sports · 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Bradley uses Aiven

It's okay, it doesn't fail which is great, but lacking in tools.

What they liked
  • Console is easy to navigate
  • I didn't need a single tutorial to figure out what was where
Room for improvement

Monitoring, Performance measuring, and optimization tools are pretty non-existent

Why they chose it

"I didn't choose, inherited from a prior decision."

Mario C.

Verified User

Telecommunications · 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Aiven is very efficent for me, because is very easy use to

the serves restores in atumatic in downtime the backup automatic facility to see the performance

What they liked

graph of metrics query statics easy admin of users the autimatic backups and restores the upgrades of service plans is a very easy and autimatic the agents of service desk are very efficent and friendly

Room for improvement

can't watch logs of befores days aiven dont have a panel to execute querys, i could execute querys without any administrator of postgresql from your platform cant admin sessions, i could close to sessions without pgadmin

Verified Professional

Higher Education

Used daily for less than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Overall good, customer support is good, however pricing is not great compared to AWS, logs not good.

Higher Education

What they liked

Ease of use, being able to upgrade, downgrade hardware as needed, great customer support, overall decent interface

Room for improvement

Hardware versus price is not great, especially compared to AWS, not great logging, seems difficult to customize, no auto scaling

Nathan K.

Verified User

Financial Services · 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years
May 28, 2026

Painless PostreSql

Overall all of my interactions with the Aiven team have been positive, even if we didn't arrive at a solution the support team is knowledgeable and truly tries to help. As for the system itself it has been pretty rock solid so far. Keep up the good work.

What they liked

The confidence I have that the DB will be running, that if there is an update or upgrade I can (from the DB side) simply click a button to deploy it

Room for improvement
  • We are currently transitioning most of our app to k8s and the systems just don't seem to work super well with Digital Ocean's current solution
  • (We don't get VPC's and as such have issue with whitelisting correct IP's as they tend to change)
Why they chose it

"I was not part of this process"

Verified Professional

Used daily for less than 12 months
May 28, 2026

Good for quick start, but more features required

Used daily for less than 12 months

What they liked
  • Ease of use, quick setup
  • We easily migrated to cloud and don't have to manage PostgreSQL any more
Room for improvement

Not enough features and settings for PostgreSQL: for example: slow queries logs are missing and we have to monitor by third party tools

Verified Professional

Logistics and Supply Chain · 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months
May 28, 2026

Great product, really happy about it

Logistics and Supply Chain

What they liked

- the support provided during the sales cycle - the exploration of possible options - the platform is clear and user friendly - great product, it took us a few hours to migrate from our database on premise to that on Aiven

Room for improvement

- the fact that we can only have Timescale Open Source features run on Aiven, and not the advanced features

Why they chose it

"Database as a service, H.A."

Verified Professional

Human Resources · 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months
May 28, 2026

Great affordable product

Overall, it's been a smooth experience transitioning and migrating over from our previous hosting platform. The support has been absolutely great thus far.

What they liked
  • It's clean, simple-to-use, and best of all, is serviced by very knowledgeable IT staff who can answer the finer details of our technical questions and make nuanced recommendations
  • The pricing plan is also friendlier than those offered by the bigger platforms
Room for improvement

It would be great if we can be on the trial plan too, and getting on it was a bit of a hassle, but otherwise not much complaints

Verified Professional

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering · 5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months
May 28, 2026

Ideal setup for Postgres + TimescaleDB

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

What they liked

- Good Terraform support - TimescaleDB support (plus other addons) - Very responsive sales and engineering department - Supports all major cloud providers including Azure

Room for improvement

- Pricing is more expensive than Azures own Postgres (but that doesn't TimescaleDB)

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