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26 Amazon Kinesis Reviews
4.7 out of 5
26 Amazon Kinesis Reviews
4.7 out of 5

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Partha Pratim D.
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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis?

Scalability: Can handle large amounts of streaming data.

Durability: Data is replicated across multiple availability zones.

Integration: Integrates well with other AWS services and third-party tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis?

Managing the scalability and shard configuration can be complex.

Cost considerations, as with any AWS service, can escalate with increased usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ganapathiraj T.
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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis?

It's reamitime data streaming is more powerful for analysis.

It's accessibility and support has been excellent. It's very quick get it setup and to go into production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis?

Data visibility and scalability can be even better.

Even with more data throughout it could be very helpful if supported with more data visualization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis?

It allows me to ingest and process real-time data streams also to capture and store data, and then analyze it with various AWS services or custom application. It also use for fraud detection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis?

Setting up and configuring kinesis streams and analyztcis pipelines can be complex for new users. Kinesis might not be useful where require ultra-low latency. Cost factor is also there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajesh D.
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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis?

Configuration part of Amazon Kinesis is a very fast and easiest thing. It is helpful even for small scale businesses. Kinesis is great at multi partitioning. Compared to other vendors, we can manage real time data very easily even with huge loads of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis?

Little complex to understand the service and need in depth knowledge to understand it. We need to have customer support from AWS team for initial migration for our new applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stacy H.
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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis?

I like that it is cost effective and helps with my data storage. It is super easy to use and navigate. If you are looking for a data storage website this is a great one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis?

There isn't too much to dislike on this website. If there was one thing, it would be it isn't very well heard of. Better advertising and marketing of its existence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis?

It is very cost affective and a great way to capture and send data. It helps in the storing process and makes everything alot more at ease and stress free when trying to input the data! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis?

getting used to using it compaired to other services was a bit of a challange for me but once getting used to it, it became one of the easiest processes to go through! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manikannan M.
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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis?

It is easy to read data from kinesis stream with less implementation.

And we can easily configure it with other tools like databricks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis?

As of my Knowledge, everthing is good about kinesis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis?

I love that amazon kinesis is analytical pro. It does provide real time steaming and also gives good stats on it too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis?

Amazon Kinesis required a good learning curve and chats with the support. It's a complex software and has a pretty good cost ascoiated to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Demada Chetan R.
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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis?

1. It is easy to collect, analyze the data in real time.

2.Can easily integrate with data analytic tools like SQL, Apache Flink.

3. Kinesis data streams has the higher retenttion data and can reporcess data easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis?

1. Kineses data streams on-demand mode which is scalable is high priced.

2. Kineses data firehose doesnot support replay and is near realtime.

3. Push Data is only 2MB per shard per customer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis?

It is providing real time data as everyone want for data processing reliably and flexibly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis?

Nothing to dislike easy to use. user friendly service with visibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.