Hands-on – ingesting streaming data
Earlier in this chapter, we looked at two options for ingesting streaming data into AWS, namely Amazon Kinesis and Amazon MSK. In this section, we will use the serverless Amazon Kinesis service to ingest streaming data. To generate streaming data, we will use the open source Amazon Kinesis Data Generator (KDG) In this section:
- Configure Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to ingest streaming data, and write the data out to Amazon S3.
- Configure Amazon KDG to create a fake source of streaming data.
To get started, let's configure a new Kinesis Data Firehose to ingest streaming data and write it out to our Amazon S3 data lake.
Configuring Kinesis Data Firehose for streaming delivery to Amazon S3
Kinesis Data Firehose is designed to enable you to easily ingest data from streaming sources, and then write that data out to a supported target (such as Amazon S3, which we will do in this exercise). Let's get started:
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