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Learn how to quickly create a fork of your Aiven for PostgreSQL instance to set up a safe staging or testing environment. In this demo, we walk you through selecting your project and service, navigating to the backups & forking section, naming your new instance, choosing the cloud provider and plan, and finalising the fork to replicate your original database. This approach allows you to test changes safely without affecting your production database, making development and QA workflows much more reliable.

Learn how to create a read replica for your Aiven for PostgreSQL instance using the Aiven Console. In this demo, we’ll show you step by step how to: 1) Ensure you’re on a Startup plan or higher 2) Select your service and name your replica 3) Choose the cloud provider, region, and plan 4) Create the read replica Once built, your replica can even be promoted to a primary instance, making it perfect for disaster recovery or scaling your workload.

In this video, we show you how to quickly connect to your Aiven for PostgreSQL instance by locating your service URL in the Aiven Console. Your login credentials remain secure but can be copied easily, and we demonstrate how to connect using a variety of tools, including the Aiven CLI, PostgreSQL clients, and popular programming language modules. Get up and running in minutes and start interacting with your database effortlessly, whether for development, testing, or analytics.

Learn how to create an Aiven for ClickHouse cluster using the Aiven Console in just 90 seconds. This step-by-step demo shows you how to select a project and name your service, choose your cloud provider, region, and plan, optionally add extra storage, and launch your cluster. Watch as your ClickHouse cluster appears in the service overview, ready to handle your analytics workloads with ease.

Get Kafka-Nated Ep. 10 Wednesday, November 5th 2025 Guest Focus: Co-Founder & CTO at OpsHelm, former Head of Infrastructure Engineering at ProdPerfect and Lead Engineer at Vivid Seats Kyle McCullough joins host Hugh Evans to explore what it takes to build real-time, multi-cloud streaming infrastructure at scale. As Co-Founder and CTO of OpsHelm, Kyle shares how his team processes hundreds of terabytes of cloud events daily, maintaining sub-second visibility while reducing streaming costs by 78% after migrating from MSK and NATS to Aiven Diskless Kafka.

Learn how to automatically close inactive connections in your Aiven for PostgreSQL service using pgBouncer’s idle timeout setting. In this demo, we’ll walk through the Aiven Console to adjust the server_idle_timeout value in pgBouncer’s advanced configuration, helping you optimise performance and free up resources by terminating idle connections faster.

Virtual Generated Columns are another new feature that we're exploring in PG18.

Learn how to set up a PostgreSQL service on Aiven in just one minute. This demo walks you through accessing your account, configuring your new service, and selecting the right options for your needs. We’ll cover selecting an immutable service name, picking the cloud provider and plan, and show how Aiven’s clear deployment feedback makes creating a scalable database fast and straightforward. Get your PostgreSQL database up and running quickly, so you can focus on building your applications.