Amazon Kinesis

Amazon Kinesis is a suite of services offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for collecting, processing, and analyzing real-time streaming data. It’s designed to handle high volumes of data coming from various sources, such as website clicks, social media feeds, sensor data, financial transactions, and more. In this lesson, we will learn about Amazon Kinesis’s features and how they work.

Amazon Kinesis services

Amazon Kinesis is a serverless service that simplifies capturing, processing, and storing real-time data streams at any scale. It allows us to define how we want to process the data streams and integrate the processed data with other AWS services for further analysis. Amazon Kinesis isn’t a single service but rather a suite of services designed to handle real-time streaming data.

There are four primary services under the Amazon Kinesis umbrella:

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully managed service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables us to build real-time applications to process and analyze streaming data at scale.

Let’s look at an example to understand how ...