Amazon Kinesis Firehose
Amazon Kinesis Firehose is a fully managed service that automatically captures, transforms, and loads streaming data into data stores and analytics services. It simplifies the process of sending real-time data to destinations like Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and others…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2015
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Amazon Kinesis Firehose was created to eliminate the significant operational burden and complexity associated with building, managing, and scaling custom data ingestion pipelines for high-volume, real-time streaming data. Before Firehose, organizations had to develop and maintain their own applications to read from streaming sources, buffer data, handle retries, manage batching, compress, encrypt, and reliably deliver it to various analytical destinations, a process that required considerable engineering effort and infrastructure management.
- Platforms
- AWS Cloud
Related technologies
Notable users
- Any company leveraging AWS for real-time analytics, logging, or IoT data ingestion
- Netflix (general AWS user, likely uses Kinesis services)
- Expedia (general AWS user, likely uses Kinesis services)
- Capital One (general AWS user, likely uses Kinesis services)