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Self-service for every team on open Apache Kafka, with no proprietary core. Built and supported in the Netherlands, deployed where you choose.
Axual is an enterprise data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka and Strimzi. It adds self-service, access control, schema governance and audit history on top of the open Kafka core, and runs on your own Kubernetes, on-premises or in your cloud. Here’s why regulated organisations choose it.
A European region doesn’t make a service sovereign when the supplier, the cloud provider and the legal control sit outside Europe. With Axual, you choose: run it on your own infrastructure, with your keys and your upgrade schedule, or let Axual run it for you on Scaleway, a European cloud provider. Either way, the supplier, the cloud and your data stay in Europe.
Runs in your data centre or your cloud account, in the region you choose
Upgrades are Helm charts you apply on your schedule, not a vendor push
Encryption keys and storage configuration stay with you, and no data passes through Axual
Axual is built and supported in the Netherlands, keeping the supplier, support, and data within the European legal framework
Your team, on your own Kubernetes, or Axual as a managed service on a European cloud provider.
Deployment control and audit evidence support your GDPR, NIS2, DORA and NEN 7510 obligations
Axual is open Apache Kafka, operated by Strimzi, with governance, self-service and schema management deployed alongside it. There’s no proprietary core, so you’re never locked in to us.
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The usual way to keep teams apart on Kafka is to give each one its own cluster. That works until you’re running and paying for dozens of them, most barely used. Axual gives every team its own space on a shared platform.
Application teams handle their own Kafka work without waiting on the platform team. Every action happens inside guardrails the platform team sets, with access approved by the data owner and every change on record.
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Axual runs the same way on-premises, in your cloud account or across both, on Kubernetes or OpenShift.
Axual Cloud, hosted on Scaleway, offers managed convenience while keeping data, operations, and support under European jurisdiction.
Kafka is easy to deploy; scale is what costs. Every extra cluster adds patching, monitoring, upgrades and on-call work. With Axual, adoption grows without the operational load growing with it.
Axual is open Apache Kafka, operated by Strimzi, with governance, self-service and multi-tenancy deployed alongside it. There’s no proprietary core, so if you ever leave, you keep a standard Kafka cluster. You choose where it runs: on your own infrastructure, or managed by Axual on Scaleway, a European cloud provider. Axual is an independent company, built and supported in the Netherlands, so your supplier, support and data stay within the European legal framework.
MSK gives you managed Kafka clusters on AWS; governance, self-service and team isolation are things you build yourself. Axual adds those on top of open Kafka, and runs in any cloud account, on-premises, or as a managed service on Scaleway, so you’re not tied to one provider.
Yes. Axual’s migration service moves topics, schemas, consumer offsets and applications from Confluent or MSK to open Kafka. Migration can run without any downtime. Check our Migration services here.
Yes. Axual is an enterprise Kafka platform built on open Apache Kafka and Strimzi, with governance, self-service and multi-tenancy included. Unlike Confluent, there’s no proprietary core: if you leave, you keep a standard Kafka cluster. You can run Axual on your own infrastructure or have Axual manage it for you on Scaleway, a European cloud provider. Axual is an independent company, developed and supported in the Netherlands, whereas Confluent is owned by IBM (US).
Yes. Axual can run the platform for you as a managed service on Scaleway, a European cloud provider, with 24/7 platform management included. You can also run it yourself, on-premises or in your own cloud account, and Axual Platform Support can operate a self-hosted installation for you.
Most of our customers don’t want a vendor’s AI acting on their production data. They want their own AI tools to work with live data, safely. Through the Axual MCP server, you connect the agents you already use, and they work under the same governance and EU-level control as the rest of the platform.
Any assistant or agent that supports the Model Context Protocol, including EU-hosted and self-hosted models. Axual doesn't tie you to one AI vendor.
Through deployment control and evidence: you choose where the platform and data run, every access request is approved by the data owner, and audit events across platform resources show who did what and when. Axual is ISO 27001 certified.
No. Axual is multi-tenant, so teams share a governed cluster instead of getting one each. Application teams register applications, create topics, request access, manage schemas and deploy connectors through self-service, all available through the API and the Terraform provider as well as the interface. Platform teams set guardrails rather than handling each request.
Axual is a strong fit if you:
No. It’s built for the requirements of regulated organisations, which makes it a strong fit anywhere many teams share Kafka and need control over access and data, including retail, manufacturing and logistics.
Multi-tenancy means many teams and applications share the same governed Kafka clusters instead of each getting their own. Separation is done through ownership, access control and environments rather than through separate infrastructure: resources are owned by a group, access to a topic is granted per application and environment and needs data owner approval, and topic, consumer group and transactional ID names are namespaced so teams cannot collide. Cost follows the data you actually stream rather than the number of teams, and adding a team is a self-service registration rather than a new cluster to size, secure and run.
Axual is an independent, EU-owned platform built on open-source Kafka and Strimzi, with self-service governance and audit history included. You can run it on your own infrastructure or have Axual manage it for you on Scaleway, so the supplier, the cloud and your data all stay in Europe. And if you leave, you keep standard Kafka.