Amazon Kinesis Streams Launch

AWS launched Amazon Kinesis Streams, providing a fully managed service for real-time ingestion and processing of large streams of data records.

Significance

This laid the foundational streaming infrastructure within AWS, creating the need and the context for a simplified delivery mechanism like Firehose.

Key facts

Date
2013-11-13
Type
release
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (AWS re:Invent)