Aiven partners with Exoscale to drive open source database-as-a-service offerings

HELSINKI, Finland — Aiven, a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure, today announced its partnership with Exoscale, a European cloud hosting alternative, to offer Exoscale customers Aiven’s managed database services.

Over the years, Exoscale has helped hundreds of European customers migrate, run and scale their production workloads - all while ensuring full GDPR compliance for all workloads it manages. Through this partnership, Aiven and Exoscale will be better positioned to serve the European market’s cloud services needs while ensuring full compliance.

DBaaS (Database-as-a-Service) is the fastest growing domain in cloud services, according to Gartner, and market research predicts the global cloud database and DBaaS market size will reach $26B by 2025. The partnership enables Exoscale customers to instantly and seamlessly create relational and distributed databases in an integrated environment without any security compromise.

“European businesses face unique compliance challenges and requirements. Through our partnership with one of the world’s leading DBaaS providers, we’re better able to support our customers’ growing database services needs, all while doing what we do best - ensuring compliance,” said Mathias Nöbauer, CEO of Exoscale. “We’re excited to partner with Aiven and expand our cloud service offerings for our customers.”

Aiven’s managed services offered within the Exoscale public cloud include database instances, database storage and API services, enabling features like the ability to create, restore and manage different database stores, migrate database services without user disruption when upgrading software or migrating instances across cloud infrastructure, as well as statistics and monitoring information on the underlying operating system.

“As the DBaaS market continues its rapid expansion, it's important to Aiven to meet the data residency needs and challenges of businesses,” said Aiven CEO Oskari Saarenmaa.“ We are excited to work with Exoscale in offering DBaaS services to their customers.”