The Amazon Kinesis family
The Amazon Kinesis family is a set of fully managed services provided by AWS for streaming data processing and analysis. The family consists of the following main services:
- Amazon Kinesis Data Streams: This is a service for collecting and processing large amounts of data in real time from various sources, such as websites, mobile apps, IoT devices, and social media. Data is stored in shards and processed with custom applications. You can use Kinesis Data Streams to process data with Amazon Lambda and other custom applications. Kinesis Data Streams also offers the ability to store data in Amazon S3, enabling you to perform additional analysis on data stored in Amazon S3.
- Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose: This is a fully managed service that enables you to capture, transform, and load streaming data into various destinations. Firehose provides a simple and scalable way to capture and transform streaming data from various sources, such as IoT devices...