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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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Verified User in Hospitality
UH
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Satisfies the needs"
What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

High throughput, and using it with Kinesis Firehose to store it. Doing that gave me a reliable solution to store raw data on S3 and start from there to build the warehouse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

I did not face any issue from a technical point of view, but from the bills, I can see that the cost will go extremely high when we start doubling and tripling the data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amit B.
AB
Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"One stop solution to cater real time data streaming use case"
What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Many available options like Kafa, Azure, etc but this outshines everyone as it is closely integrated with other AWS microservices. It helps to build the entire infrastructure using AWS. Real-time is the best thing. Also, support is good along with frequent improvements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Setting up kinesis is a comparatively harder task. I could set up Azure and manage Kafka services a bit more easily. Documentation can be improved to some extent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hiệp N.
HN
DevOps Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Amazon Kinesis Data streams Review"
What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Kinesis Data stream provides a helpful tool to stream data in real time from multiple sources to multiple destinations, can integrate with some analytic tools like Kinesis data analytics, Glue, .... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Kinesis data stream can be an expensive service when data transfer is big. Also we need to learn how to use kinesis data stream to configure shards, read and write data from stream, .... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhranil C.
AC
Associate Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Amazing, the UI is awesome, the reports are too much clear to make understood a layman. Keep going."
What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

The UI is too awesome to use by a student. The ease of use. The report generation is just beautiful. The colour variation of the report are so clear to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Setting up environment is little trickey. Environment setup can be more easy while comparing with other reporting tool. Whatever rest all are just super, loved it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sean K.
SK
Sales Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Does what it says on the tin"
What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

It's very easy to manage for a service of its kind. It has great integrations with other AWS services and we appreciate the continual improvements and additions by the AWS team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

It can be not very cost effective under some circumstances, for example when using auto-scaling or when dealing with volumes of data below what 1 shard can handle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anisha P.
AP
Analyst
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
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"Best service for streaming & event streaming"
What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

It is straightforward to perform initial setup and connectivity with other AWS services. Kinesis firehose makes it really easy. You can easily check streaming statistics using logs & metrics which makes it really useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Check log sometimes is more complicate than other clouds but overall it is not a major issue. I would suggest to use this service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vijay P.
VP
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Amazing analytics engine for Amazon services"
What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Serverless platforms are a godsend because they are very easy to manage. Kinesis integrated well with all Amazon services and is highly scalable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

The terminology is a bit difficult to understand. It is also difficult to check for backlogs, since it does not entail a queue system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
AB
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best Data Streaming Tool"
What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

We are using Amazon Kinesis Data Stream for one of the renowned bank in the world. We are using Kinesis to stream their KYC data every hour in an S3 bucket and encrypt it into the another bucket Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Not much dislike to this tool the only thing I noticed during our build part we cannot check data in kinesis when data is processed as it is divided into shards. Need little clarity here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Solid service with new features being continuously being added"
What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

The addition of new features such as on-demans sharing shows that AWS is keen on developing this service further. The extensibility of this service is also excellent, as custom processing logic can be implemented if required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Managing shards in the past was difficult. This is alleviated by on-demand sharding. Observability within shards is somewhat limited, which means that more complex and nuanced processing issues may be difficult to unpack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Soubhik K.
SK
Data Engineering Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Kinesis real time streaming"
What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Kinesis fire hose

Fully managed

Easy integration with s3 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Kinesis data streams

Pre planning of shards management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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