Kinesis

Amazon Kinesis is a suite of fully managed services within AWS designed for real-time processing of large streams of data. It enables users to ingest, buffer, and process data from various sources for analytics, application monitoring, and machine learning, abstracting away the complexities of…

Key facts

First appeared: 2013
Category: technology
Problem solved: Amazon Kinesis was created to solve the significant operational complexity, scalability challenges, and cost associated with building and maintaining robust, highly available, and durable real-time data streaming infrastructure. Before Kinesis, organizations had to self-manage complex distributed systems like Apache Kafka, requiring specialized expertise and substantial effort, which made real-time streaming prohibitive for many.
Platforms: AWS Cloud

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Notable users

FINRA
Netflix
Lyft
Thomson Reuters
Expedia
T-Mobile