AWS Kinesis

AWS Kinesis is a family of fully managed AWS services designed for real-time processing of large, distributed data streams. It enables continuous capture, storage, and processing of data from various sources, facilitating real-time analytics, application monitoring, and more. The foundational…

Key facts

First appeared: 2013
Category: technology
Problem solved: AWS Kinesis was created to provide a fully managed, highly scalable, and durable service for ingesting and processing vast amounts of real-time data. It eliminated the operational overhead of building, deploying, and managing complex distributed stream processing infrastructure (like self-hosted Apache Kafka clusters) for organizations needing immediate insights from continuously arriving data.
Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud

Related technologies

AWS Lambda
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Kinesis Firehose
AWS Glue
Amazon S3
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
Amazon EC2
Amazon DynamoDB

Notable users

Netflix
Thomson Reuters
Expedia
BT Group
Capital One
Many other enterprises utilizing AWS for real-time data analytics