Aiven and Humanitec Create Technical Alliance for a New Developer Experience Layer

HELSINKI, Finland, BERLIN, Germany — March 1st, 2021 — Aiven, a software
company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure,
today announced its technical alliance with Humanitec, the market leading provider
of Internal Developer Platforms. By pairing Aiven and Humanitec technologies, the
application and database layers on each public cloud platform can work in harmony.

Aiven’s service lets developers use various open source managed databases on
AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, and UpCloud minimizing vendor lock-in and
standardizing the developer experience in the cloud, while Humanitec performs the
equivalent for the application layer. Humanitec users build their own Internal
Developer Platform (IDP), then plug into existing delivery, orchestration, and
management tools like your CI Pipeline, Kubernetes Cluster, or an Aiven database
service. Together, Aiven and Humanitec aim to keep overhead within operations
teams as low as possible and provide developers a customized, reliable solution
based on their unique needs.

“Our alliance with Humanitec is a huge stride forward for the developer cloud
experience,” says Oskari Saarenmaa, CEO of Aiven. “Not only do our offerings
complement one another, but by teaming up with Humanitec, we can provide
enhanced productivity for development and operations teams across the board.”

Developers now have more time to focus on features, rather than the quirks of
underlying data and vendor infrastructure. This alliance also breaks down the
complexity of multi-cloud use cases, giving customers who desire to future-proof
their business a new path to take by standardizing and automating workflows and
scripts to reach seamless operations on and transition between providers.
Customers will begin to see reduced maintenance overhead, smoother scripting
processes, and minimal change to various APIs. By reaching this degree of
standardization, developer-self service is also possible, increasing productivity for
operations teams.

“Developer experience drives velocity. For enterprise-developers, what tech their
code runs on should be an implementation detail the ops team takes care of,” says
Kaspar von Grünberg, CEO at Humanitec. “We’ve changed the game on the
app-layer already, and I’m excited to extend this momentum to the database-layer
through this partnership.”

About Aiven
Headquartered in Helsinki with offices in Berlin, Sydney, Toronto and Boston, Aiven
is a SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified cloud data platform provider, operating
managed open source database, event streaming, cache, search, and graphing
solutions for over 500 customers worldwide. For more information, visit aiven.io or
follow Aiven on Twitter: @aiven_io.

About Humanitec
Humanitec is the market leader for Internal Developer Platforms. The company
helps Ops teams from startups to enterprises build and run their own Internal
Developer Platforms for their application development teams. Humanitec's unique
approach relieves pressure on Ops and boosts developer productivity. For more
information, visit humanitec.com or follow Humanitec on Twitter: @Humanitec_com

Michiel Mulders
Senior Developer Advocate at Humanitec
michiel.mulders@humanitec.com

Humanitec GmbH
Wöhlertstraße 12-13, 10115 Berlin, Germany

Humanitec is the market leader for Internal Developer Platforms.

The company helps ops teams from growing startups to enterprises build and run their own Internal Developer Platforms. Humanitec's unique approach relieves pressure on ops and boosts developer productivity.

Before Humanitec, building those Internal Developer Platforms was hard. It required significant budgets and time. Humanitec makes this process much easier while keeping you flexible along the way.

Humanitec helps you to enable your development teams to focus on delivering great software.

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