Amazon Kinesis

External

• https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/
• Amazon Kinesis Whitepaper https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/whitepaper-streaming-data-solutions-on-aws-with-amazon-kinesis.pdf

Internal

• Amazon AWS
• Stream Processing

Overview

Kinesis acts as a highly available conduit to stream messages between data producers and data consumers.

Services

Amazon Kinesis Streams

https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-streams/

Kinesis Streams is aimed at users who want to build custom applications to process or analyze streaming data.

TO PROCESS:

• https://www.sumologic.com/blog/devops/kinesis-streams-vs-firehose/

Amazon Kinesis Firehose

• https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-firehose/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/firehose/latest/dev/writing-with-sdk.html

Kinesis Firehose is a solution for loading streaming data from all kinds of sources (web applications, mobile application, IoT, telemetry) directly into AWS storage. There is no need to write applications or manage resources.

Amazon Kinesis Analytics

https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-analytics/

Concepts

Stream

Streams are made out of shards.