Chapter 8: Kinesis Integrations
In the previous chapters, we covered the four Kinesis services: Kinesis Data Streams (KDS), Kinesis Firehose, Kinesis Data Analytics (KDA), and Kinesis Video Streams (KVS). When we looked at their core concepts, usage patterns, and examples, each service was shown in isolation or in combination with other Kinesis services. In this chapter, we will explore how the Kinesis family of services integrates with other AWS services to create applications or end-to-end solutions.
We will cover a wide variety of services, including Amazon Connect, Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, and third-party services such as Splunk. This chapter will serve as a good primer on these services, if you are unfamiliar with them. We will start by covering the basics of the services, and then focus on using them in conjunction with Kinesis. This book was written in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, and if there is one thing that's clear, it is...