Concepts#
Learn about some of the key concepts for working with Aiven platform:
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Learn about authentication tokens and how to use them to programmatically access Aiven resources.
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Understand how to set up and manage billing profiles.
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What to expect from the early versions of our new services and upgrades.
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Learn about Aiven’s access control, encryption, network security, data privacy and operator access.
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Learn about how Aiven manages backup for each service and its retention policies.
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Learn about how Aiven manages service power off and power on.
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Quickly and safely make a copy of your database or other service for testing, dry run upgrades, or anything else, without affecting your existing service.
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Understanding memory overhead and limits applied to services.
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How Aiven protects your service from the Out Of Memory Killer when memory is overcommitted.
Organizations, projects, and managing access.
Understand organizations, organizational units, access management, and best practices for structuring your Aiven projects.
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Securing connections to Aiven services with certificates.
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Add (and remove) storage on the fly without upgrading your plan.
Bring your own account (BYOA).
BYOA is an optional setup feature that allows you to purchase your Aiven services through your existing Cloud Provider.
Enhanced Compliance Environments (ECE).
Enhanced Compliance Environments are an optional setup feature that allows you to deploy Aiven services within an environment that satisfies compliance beyond those of a standard environment.
Disaster Recovery (DR) testing scenarios.
DR testing scenarios are simulations of disaster scenarios run for enterprise support customers by Aiven operators.
Choosing a time series database.
Choosing a time series database in Aiven Console.
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Learn about why services in Aiven have different resources than the VM it is running on.
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Find out what availability zones are and how they can be used to improve data security and availability.