--- title: "Aiven for PostgreSQL Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Aiven for PostgreSQL. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Aiven for PostgreSQL is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/database-management-systems/aiven-postgresql-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Database Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/database-management-systems/) / [Aiven for PostgreSQL](https://www.softwareadvice.com/database-management-systems/aiven-postgresql-profile/) / Aiven for PostgreSQL Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/database-management-systems/aiven-postgresql-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/database-management-systems/aiven-postgresql-profile/alternatives/) # Aiven for PostgreSQL User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.7/5 - Total reviews: 71 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.7/5 - Customer support: 4.6/5 - Value for money: 4.2/5 - Functionality: 4.4/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 53 reviews (75%) - 4 stars: 17 reviews (24%) - 3 stars: 1 reviews (1%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - Details in the Services and Billing are useful for monthly internal reporting. - Ease of deployment and a centralized place to manage multiple databases and services. - Aiven provides a suitable and reliable environment with excellent performance. ## Aiven for PostgreSQL customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 71 (page 1). ### Aiven provides reliable and secure services, and support has been super knowledgable. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tony K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Commercial Real Estate - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Aiven provides premium security for all accounts, not as an add-on feature. #### Cons The terraform plugin is not up to full feature parity, but covers most of our use cases. --- ### Aiven is the perfect, no-lock-in DB solution - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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 uses Aiven - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Bradley H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Sports - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. It's okay, it doesn't fail which is great, but lacking in tools. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros Console is easy to navigate. I didn't need a single tutorial to figure out what was where. #### Cons Monitoring, Performance measuring, and optimization tools are pretty non-existent #### Reasons for choosing Aiven for PostgreSQL I didn't choose, inherited from a prior decision. --- ### Aiven is very efficent for me, because is very easy use to - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mario C. - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. the serves restores in atumatic in downtime the backup automatic facility to see the performance #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 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 #### Cons 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 #### Vendor response Hello Mario, Thank you for your review. We¿re glad to hear you have enjoyed the ease of use of our managed PostgreSQL. First, I wanted to let you know that it is now possible to close connections directly from console. Second, our logs view has been improved; for longer logs retention, we support integration to Elasticsearch, where you can keep logs for unlimited (limited by amount of disk space) time. Thanks again! Replied February 2019 --- ### Overall good, customer support is good, however pricing is not great compared to AWS, logs not good. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Ease of use, being able to upgrade, downgrade hardware as needed, great customer support, overall decent interface. #### Cons Hardware versus price is not great, especially compared to AWS, not great logging, seems difficult to customize, no auto scaling. --- ### Painless PostreSql - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nathan K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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) #### Reasons for choosing Aiven for PostgreSQL I was not part of this process --- ### Good for quick start, but more features required - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Ease of use, quick setup. We easily migrated to cloud and don't have to manage PostgreSQL any more. #### Cons Not enough features and settings for PostgreSQL: for example: slow queries logs are missing and we have to monitor by third party tools. --- ### Great product, really happy about it - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros - 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. #### Cons - the fact that we can only have Timescale Open Source features run on Aiven, and not the advanced features. #### Reasons for choosing Aiven for PostgreSQL Database as a service, H.A. --- ### Great affordable product - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Human Resources - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. Overall, it's been a smooth experience transitioning and migrating over from our previous hosting platform. The support has been absolutely great thus far. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 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. #### Cons 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. --- ### Ideal setup for Postgres + TimescaleDB - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: October 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros - Good Terraform support - TimescaleDB support (plus other addons) - Very responsive sales and engineering department - Supports all major cloud providers including Azure #### Cons - Pricing is more expensive than Azures own Postgres (but that doesn't TimescaleDB) --- ### Great product - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alexandre L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. We are moving all our Postgres workload to aiven. We save lot of time managing and maintaining lots of PG instances. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It's efficient: no downtime during migration scale up/down And easy to use! #### Cons Maybe an "in customer cloud" deployment for small business could be appreciable #### Reasons for choosing Aiven for PostgreSQL For reliability, and pricing #### Reasons for switching to Aiven for PostgreSQL To hard to maintain reliably Time consuming Under license now --- ### Potential best DBaaS - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Oriol F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros simple to use, performant and reliable. #### Cons Had to create a temporary grafana installation to grab the prometheus dashboard and took some considerable time to adapt it to our own self-hosted installation. --- ### aiven is a great service, very few downsides - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Quinn W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. Overall aiven PostgreSQL has been a smooth experience, with smooth upgrades/migrations. We are using it to replace a legacy MongoDB stack. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros The self-service nature of everything, including vpc peering. The existence of a hashicorp terraform provider works perfectly for us :) #### Cons Chat support isn't great, I'd rather be able to asynchronously create a ticket in response to issues rather than wait for staff to be available via chat. Some postgres options aren't configurable (ie. deadlock_timeout). --- ### Aiven Postgres - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Edmund M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: November 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I think the Aiven console is very useful and allows for a lot of database tasks to be completed via the UI, which is quite handy. Additionally, the dashboards built into the dashboard are pretty useful for monitoring the overall state of the Postgres instance. #### Cons I feel that there is some missing documentation with the documentation on the Postgres service not being quite as complete and clear as it could be. --- ### Easy to use Aiven console especially for monthly review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Ami F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Entertainment - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros As I am not an engineer, I use Aiven console for monitoring third party usages and reporting. Details in the Services and Billing are useful for monthly internal reporting. The UI for the console is user friendly and easy to use. I can get the required information that I need. #### Cons As I haven't use it too long, at the moment I have none. Keep up the good work. --- ### Awesome service - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. love it #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Its so easy to set up and get started with, and the blog article that tells you how to set up timescale db (that was the primary reason we needed aiven in the first place). I love it. #### Cons Nothing to do with the service, but the fact that timescaledb wont let us use the enterprise license in aiven is deeply disappointing. But love aiven, keep up the great work guys --- ### Excellent cloud managed offering of PostGreSQL with nice extensions - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Djay C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. We are using it to solve temporal data ingest and queries for IoT use-cases. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy cloud based management of all database operational aspects. #### Cons Low limits on maximum connections for SaaS use-cases where a large number of connections are required. Do not have root/postgres admin access to install custom extensions. --- ### Works as it should, no useless overhead - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Max W. - Industry: Airlines/ Aviation - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. Quick and easy solution for my need of Database as a service. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Absolutely easy setup. Just a few clicks and everything is up and running. No overhead configuration or to database specific. I needed a Database as a service, i got a database as a service. Nothing more to say. #### Cons I miss a little button to start a database backup by myself. Maybe it is there somewhere, but i am too blind... --- ### Great product - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tristan F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The product is Fast and reliable and the interface is user friendly #### Cons Storage sizing is not independent from machine sizing --- ### Very good SaaS database - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Piotr S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Music - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: August 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Easy deployment Multi cloud replication Performance #### Cons A little costly Everything else is great :) --- ### Thought - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Antonio P. - Industry: Consumer Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros No brainer provider that supports multiple cloud providers. Very easy to use and configure and customer support very helpful when needed. #### Cons I haven't encountered any downside so far. --- ### Merci pour ce service. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Thierry S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Government Administration - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for free trial - Reviewed: May 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. Très agréable d'utilisation. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Facilité de gestion/création de base/role. Accès aux logs sans complexité. Votre extension aiven_extras est intéressante. #### Cons 1° Les "Advanced configuration" sont mal placées dans l'Overview : un onglet spécifique serait nécessaire ? 2° Il manque un équivalent pgdumpall. --- ### Nice experience - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jose G. - Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Is too fast and easy get a postgrees sql instance. The biggest pro is to forget about having to manage the server and focus on the development of the application #### Cons The Free trial was too short, it would be better if free trial limit were storage as 500MB of free storage i miss a small instance to make tests. #### Vendor response Thanks for the feedback Jose! To provide a more comprehensive trial of our platform, we changed the trial structure to a free 30 day trial period. Replied February 2019 --- ### Aiven User! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Conor B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: November 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros - Showing active queries - Show machine metrics #### Cons - No filtering options for running queries - Machine logs are very temporal; would be nice to go back in time --- ### Reseña aiven for postgresql - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Mi experiencia es muy satisfactoria, lo recomiendo totalmente #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Lo que más me gusta es la facilidad de uso, poder trabajar de forma segura y rápido #### Cons No tengo ningún contra. Recomiendo el programa ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/database-management-systems/aiven-postgresql-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Aiven for PostgreSQL Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice