Chapter 6: Kinesis Data Analytics
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics (KDA) is a service we use to analyze streaming data, gain actionable insights, and create customer insights in near real time. KDA provides two types of analytics engines, SQL and Apache Flink. KDA is a fully managed serverless service that reduces the complexity of building, managing, and operating analytical streaming applications. In other words, we don't have to stand up, patch, or maintain any servers. Amazon Web Services also handles the scaling of underlying compute resources based on our KDA application needs.
Data has become the blood of every company, regardless of the industry. Lately, hot data usually has much more value than data at rest; cold data. Keeping competitive nowadays means being able to process large amounts of hot data in seconds. For example, if an online retailer has a promotion for some of its items, it's more valuable to know what's in shoppers' carts while they are actively...