Initial Public Launch of Amazon Kinesis

AWS CTO Werner Vogels officially announced Amazon Kinesis, a fully managed service for real-time processing of large, distributed data streams, effectively launching what would later become Kinesis Data Streams.

Significance

This marked the public debut of a foundational cloud-native stream processing service, dramatically simplifying real-time data ingestion and ushering in a new era for event-driven architectures in the cloud.