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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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"Real-time, scalable data streaming in the AWS cloud."
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"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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"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?

Easy to manage as compared to Kafka streaming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Cost as compared to open source Kafka and difficult in understanding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

To stream data from other S3 buckets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

I have been using Amazon Kinesis from a long time for generating real time data from multiplayer games and video streamings,etc. The data generated can be shared with another applications. Kinesis produces data in milliseconds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Amazon kinesis requires lot of storage space as it generates high amount of real time data. Apart from this, i have not faced any issue with kinesis. Its a trustworthy product by Amazon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Kinesis helps me in producing real time data in shards and is stored in s3 bucket database. Which is later on accessed by Amazon Cloudwatch to display data on its dashboard. Amazon kinesis is amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Batch operations and tumbling window processing of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Documentation sometimes feels lacking in clarification between data streams, kinesis analytics etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Have a clear understanding of the data volume requirements sharding strategies that may be required for production scale to get accurate cost of service estimates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Analysis and processing of iot data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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We like the serverless facility of Kinesis so much, Kinesis can handle any kind of real-time streaming data in real-time.Great application for real-time Machine Learning applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Still, Kinesis should support a lot of ETL processes, similar to AWS glue. And looking for more sample project of getting started with Kinesis for IoT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are working on a real-time Machine learning use case when we process IoT data coming from AWS IoT Core using Kinesis and storing processed data in AWS S3 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Best service to capture events from the dynamo streams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Very difficult to find out the missing events when the events flows on to headwaters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our use case is capturing the events from the dynamo streams from different shards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

It's extremely simple to set up and you don't need to build out the typical Kafka infrastructure. It scales really well and is reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Some of the advanced features, such as sharding and other horizontal-scaling issues, can be hard to do, but once you get comfortable with event-driven paradigms, it all will make sense. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Creating event-driven, distributed systems that provide for multiple consumers of a queue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

I didn't have to setup anything and by just wrting consumer our streaming service was ready to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

I understand by design it is at-least once architecture, but the number of duplicate records we get is not less. On regular basis we see at least few records coming in as duplicate. To avoid duplicate record processing we had to write ourown login and cache the records in redis.

We use KCL to consume the data and some of the default confuration can lead to data loss. We had to checkpoint every record and it seems by default checkpoint also connects with Kinesis that results in more than 5 connection to Kinsis within seconds resulting in error. We eneded up lossing data in production because of this issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I think Kinesis should have way to achive exactly-one reocrd delivery option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We push records to Kinesis coming from varioud souces and after consuming those using they result into emails. In this case emails were important emails and can not miss any data plus deplicate emails are bad too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

I like how easy it is with AWS Kinesis to stream your data and hook it up with Lambda functions that can process that data afterwards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

If you have a lot of different data entities that you need to stream, or if you have big batches of data, you have to use more shards. So it immediately becomes a very expensive service to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are gathering data from external sources and we use Kinesis to move that data to where we want to store them. Alternatively we use Firehose as well for the same purpose, which gives a bit more hands-off feeling, since it manages a lot of things for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Ease of use. From the time we decided to use Kinesis to the time I had a POC done was about 3 hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

The producer library and the consumer library were obviously written by different teams. Instantiating a producer is way different than consumers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Try it, you won't be disappointed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Analytincs was an afterthought. It took 24 hours between the time an event occurred and the time a customer could see that event. We replaced our log - zip - move - unzip - read in batches process with a simple pub/sub model and replaced the batch processor with a consumer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

The best thing about kinesis is we can pass on the data to any other service on aws through kinesis firehose. Its the SaaS version of Apache kafka. With very high throughput distributed. We can use it as a pub sub system as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

I dislike that we can not make small query data in to a stream directly for that we have to use Kinesis data analytics and that is an extra thing to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I solved the realtime data processing throgh Amazon Kinesis. I run a Lambda function that takes data from my raw kinesis stream, process it and save it in to database for direct fetch anytime. It takes less time to extract already solved and processed data to display. It helped in the realtime analytics as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.