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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Overview

What is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a massively scalable, durable, and low-cost streaming data service. Kinesis Data Streams can continuously capture gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of sources, such as website clickstreams, database event streams, financial transactions, social media feeds, IT logs, and location-tracking events. The collected data is available in milliseconds to allow real-time analytics use cases, such as real-time dashboards, real-time anomaly detection, dynamic pricing. Customers run more than two million unique streams and process tens of PB of data per day with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.

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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store data streams at any scale.


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Recent Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Reviews

Dhruv R.
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Dhruv R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Real-time, scalable data streaming in the AWS cloud."
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Mithun M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Serverless Data streaming"
Kinesis data stream helps you set up and work with streaming data. It is easy to use and has good integration with rest of the AWS ecosystem like S...
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5.0 out of 5
"Good option for realtime streaming usecases"
- No infrastructure or maintenance overheard compared to other solutions like Kafka - Tight integration with other AWS services like Lambda and s3...

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Best solution for streaming data capture and used it for amazon connect to capture the call recordings and integrated it with amazon connect and used it in contact flow design Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Best solution but it is bit slow when compared to another tools

And the configuration settings were bit conplex conpared to other tools like kinesis firehouse Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Streaming data capture

Used for call recordings

And these call recordings were stored in s3 where we can access when ever we want

Best solution for amazon connect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ch Umar J.
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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a powerful and flexible streaming data service that can help you process and analyze large volumes of real-time data with ease.It competes with other real-time data streaming services in the market, such as Apache Kafka, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, and Microsoft Azure Event Hubs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

While there are some potential challenges and limitations to using Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, many users find that the benefits of the service outweigh the costs and complexities, making it a powerful tool for real-time data streaming and processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams can help businesses solve a range of problems related to real-time data streaming and processing, providing scalability, low latency, durability, integration with other services, and cost-effectiveness. These benefits can help businesses better leverage their data, make more informed decisions, and improve their operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akash K.
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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

We used kinesis mainly for batch-processing events in a microservices architecture. The best thing about kinesis would be easy integration and compatibility with other AWS products; this caters to various use cases like the need to generate events from dynamodb or to get the events streamed to AWS lambda etc., which makes things easy in terms of infrastructure setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

I must say that pricing is a little on the higher side, which can discourage many small-medium sized startups from using this product, however, if proper management of sharding is done, this cost can be reduced effectively, but for that, one needs a deep understanding of these concepts before choosing to use this product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon Kinesis plays a crucial role in data pipelines in microservices; It caters to the use case of the need to get data to multiple destinations from multiple data sources in the AWS ecosystem, scalability is always a plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Francesca D.
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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams offers many advantages, but the most useful in my opinion is real-time data processing and analysis. Comparing this benefit with its competitors, here are a few points to consider:

- Real-time processing capability: Kinesis is designed specifically for real-time data processing and analysis, making it a strong choice in comparison to other competitors who may not prioritize real-time processing.

- Scalability: Kinesis is highly scalable, capable of handling large amounts of data and growing with your needs, which sets it apart from competitors who may struggle with scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Complex setup and maintenance: Kinesis Data Streams can require a significant amount of setup and ongoing maintenance, which can be challenging for some users.

Latency: While Kinesis is designed for real-time processing, there can still be some latency in processing and delivering data, which may be an issue for some use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Handling high volume and velocity of data: Kinesis Data Streams is designed to handle large amounts of data in real-time, allowing you to process and analyze data as it is generated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Kinesis Stream is an excellent data transmission tool in which you can restart the stream from a certain time, something very useful when you cannot lose data. It brings many advantages compared to competitors like RabbitMQ and Kafka. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

It is somewhat complex to monitor the data in real time. The dashboard should be improved to follow the data in real time and provide some way to see messages as SQS does without losing any message. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kinesis Stream can be integrated with many existing services on AWS, which greatly expands its reach. The configuration required is minimal, so it saves a lot of time for developers. It provides excellent scalability, so we should not worry. By having an iteration sequence and data flow time, it is very easy to restart the stream from a certain point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Easy to use, flexible User Interface, serverless capabilities and ability to adjust the streaming limits, real-time analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

limitations on the number of consumers per stream, handling of the amount of data per transaction to the stream Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing servers, pay as per usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

The simplicity of this service and simple configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

I don't found any dislike yet in this service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

We need solution or service to pipeline data coming from IoT device and route it to different destinations and we found this service very usefull for our requirement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Kinesis support many integrations. In our case, we wanted to send ecs service data to coralogix. By default, AWS doesn't support direct integration with coralogix. Out of box Kinesis supports coralogix integration. So we created the pipeline as follow

Forwarded the ecs cluster logs to cloudwatch using clodwatch agent. Integrated the cloudwatch as ingress for Kinesis Data Streams and configured coralogix as destination. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Pricing is on the higher side.

Initial setup is complex and need a good knowledge of AWS services to do the initial setup.

Kinesis data stream UI is not intuitive, and it won't help that much while troubleshooting the issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data integration

Cross-region data forwarding. We have clusters in multiple regions and one instance of coralogix. We combined the log data at one place using Kinesis Data Streams

Kinesis Data Streams is easily scalable. Even during the peak hour we never faced the data drop issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nagamanoj V.
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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

We had to receive events in realtime from remote Android devices without burdening our servers with repeated polls. We solved it by using AWS IoT to publish events from the android device and integrated IoT streams with Kinesis to receive events in our service as soon as the event is published from Android application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

There are no apparent issues with Kinesis data streams in terms of performance or usability, but in the startup world, the pricing is a bit on the higher side. If pricing can be adjusted, that would give choice for smaller companies to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

For receiving real-time events from remote devices, we had to use AWS IoT as it serves the use cases we needed. However, to receive events from IoT servers to our application, we needed to stream the events from IoT to one of the AWS resources like Kinesis, SQS or S3. We chose Kinesis as it is reliable and faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

The ability to push aggregated logs from various instances/machines to a centralised location. Managed service so no operation and maintenance overhead. The ability to process logs from applications and derive metrics out of it in real time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

There's nothing but if there's a way to auto increase the number of streams required, it'd help reduce the manual effort of increasing and decreasing the streams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Log aggregation and log analysis. This helps us in identifying the root cause in case of issues in the application. Also we use firehose to transfer the data to our splunk setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.