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Amazon Kinesis

Easily collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data.

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Overview

Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly to new information. Amazon Kinesis offers key capabilities to cost-effectively process streaming data at any scale, along with the flexibility to choose the tools that best suit the requirements of your application.

✨ Key Features

  • Kinesis Data Streams for real-time data ingestion
  • Kinesis Data Firehose for loading streaming data into data stores
  • Kinesis Data Analytics for processing streaming data with SQL or Apache Flink
  • Kinesis Video Streams for streaming video

🎯 Key Differentiators

  • Fully managed service on AWS
  • Deep integration with the AWS ecosystem
  • Pay-as-you-go pricing

Unique Value: A fully managed, scalable, and cost-effective solution for real-time data streaming and analytics within the AWS ecosystem.

🎯 Use Cases (5)

Real-time analytics Log and event data collection IoT data streaming Clickstream analysis Real-time application monitoring

✅ Best For

  • Netflix's real-time monitoring and analytics
  • Thomson Reuters' real-time news and financial data processing
  • Zillow's real-time data ingestion and analytics

💡 Check With Vendor

Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:

  • Applications requiring complex, stateful stream processing that is not well-suited for SQL or basic Flink.

🏆 Alternatives

Apache Kafka Google Cloud Pub/Sub Azure Event Hubs

Offers tighter integration with other AWS services and a more managed experience compared to self-hosting Apache Kafka.

💻 Platforms

Cloud (AWS)

🔌 Integrations

AWS Lambda Amazon S3 Amazon Redshift Amazon OpenSearch Service and other AWS services

🛟 Support Options

  • ✓ Email Support
  • ✓ Live Chat
  • ✓ Phone Support
  • ✓ Dedicated Support (AWS Support plans (Developer, Business, Enterprise) tier)

🔒 Compliance & Security

✓ SOC 2 ✓ HIPAA ✓ BAA Available ✓ GDPR ✓ ISO 27001 ✓ SSO ✓ SOC 1, 2, 3 ✓ ISO 27001 ✓ PCI DSS Level 1 ✓ HIPAA

💰 Pricing

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Free Tier Available

Free tier: Varies by service. For Kinesis Data Streams, the free tier includes 1 shard with 24-hour retention.

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