Amazon Kinesis
Easily collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data.
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)
✅ 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
Offers tighter integration with other AWS services and a more managed experience compared to self-hosting Apache Kafka.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Phone Support
- ✓ Dedicated Support (AWS Support plans (Developer, Business, Enterprise) tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
Free tier: Varies by service. For Kinesis Data Streams, the free tier includes 1 shard with 24-hour retention.
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