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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Overview

What is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a massively scalable, durable, and low-cost streaming data service. Kinesis Data Streams can continuously capture gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of sources, such as website clickstreams, database event streams, financial transactions, social media feeds, IT logs, and location-tracking events. The collected data is available in milliseconds to allow real-time analytics use cases, such as real-time dashboards, real-time anomaly detection, dynamic pricing. Customers run more than two million unique streams and process tens of PB of data per day with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.

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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store data streams at any scale.


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"Serverless Data streaming"
Kinesis data stream helps you set up and work with streaming data. It is easy to use and has good integration with rest of the AWS ecosystem like S...
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"Good option for realtime streaming usecases"
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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

It is another one of those extremely complicated AWS services to understand. What I love about it is how well it integrates with Pinpoint (another pretty good AWS service) and we used it to set up data streams to monitor user activity on campaigns, Marketing emails in real time. This provided some great data and the cost was pretty much negligible - so in that aspect (and data streams can do much more - I'm just using one of our main test cases as an example) it's a great service to use. But, pretty complex to set up and understand fully in my opinion.

Great and granular reporting though - one can really learn a lot about and benefit from knowing what users do on the site, after clicking emails, the entire workflow as it were if one takes the time to learn.

Amazon actively uses this service itself to prosper. That alone should tell you a lot! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Could be made less complex to set up and use. Perhaps the integration could be expanded to include other out of the box solutions like wordpress, related plugins etc... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

As described above, we used it to monitor user activity and user patterns on the site - as well as after clicking links in the marketing campaigns we sent out daily. We did learn a lot about user activity that we might not have known or guessed ourself. As Jeff Bezos likes to say, data is always king! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Kinesis is a managed service by AWS and if the entire stack of the ogranisation is in AWS, it is easily integratable and makes the solutions and data movement very quickly, compared to moving the data out of AWS. Thus it is more secure, due to data proximity. Kinesis has all the features that the pears support. Customer support is excellent with the AWS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

I feel setting up of the kenesis is comparitively difficult due to extremely complicated documentation. Also being a managed service,the user do not have much insiglts within the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon Kinesis Data Stream is a managed Kafka solution. As a user of the Kafka before, it is very hard to setup, scale, and manage the partitions. Amazon kinesis does all of these for us, and, it also has great integration with other cloud infrastructures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Amazon Kinesis is a real time or near real time streaming service provided by Amazon which helps us get data from various data sources to any managed data source solution in aws. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Amazon Kinesis one disadvantage is that once the data is pushed into Kinesis its difficult to understand how the data is devised into shards.It also lacks proper queueing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon Kinesis provides us real time insights , since it is aws managed service you get pay as you go unlike Kafka where you need to have your brokers running.Plus it is very much scalable and provides connection to various data sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

The most striking feature of Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is its scalability and real-time data processing capabilities. It effortlessly handles high volumes of data from multiple sources, allowing businesses to generate actionable insights instantaneously. The service's integration with other AWS services makes it incredibly versatile for a wide range of applications, from real-time analytics to machine learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

While Kinesis is powerful, it comes with a steep learning curve, especially for those not familiar with AWS or real-time data processing. Its cost structure can also be challenging to predict, as it is based on various factors like data volume, shard count, and data retention period. Without proper management and monitoring, costs can escalate quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Real-Time Decision Making: Businesses can make data-driven decisions in real-time by analyzing data as it is generated.

Customer Engagement: By analyzing customer behavior in real-time, businesses can offer personalized experiences to improve engagement and conversion rates.

Operational Efficiency: Real-time data can be used to optimize business operations, reduce downtime, and improve overall efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Real-time Data Streaming

Scalability

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What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Complexity

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What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

solving the problem of handling and processing real-time data streams at scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Very reliable and fast for real time data streaming. It supports multiple regions close to customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Increasing shards always needs manual effort and routing data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data is available in Near Real time from multiple sources for destination consumers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Kinesis data stream helps you set up and work with streaming data. It is easy to use and has good integration with rest of the AWS ecosystem like S3, SNS, SQS, and Lambda.

It is highly scalable and handles millions of messages per day in our AWS stack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Kinesis data stream meets our requirements for real-time data streaming - haven't found anything in the feature that I do not like. One suggestion is to have better tools for browsing realtime data streams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have data that is realtime and coming in as streaming data - which need to be processed in realtime to perform certain actions. We use kinesis data stream to recieve this data - and process it using lambda Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Connect with dynamodb and some other services like cognito for the data streaming to firehose streams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Few more services ,we can add for data tracking also Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Streaming is made on undefined structure ,but when connect to firehose,we can easily extract the data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Best solution for streaming data capture and used it for amazon connect to capture the call recordings and integrated it with amazon connect and used it in contact flow design Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Best solution but it is bit slow when compared to another tools

And the configuration settings were bit conplex conpared to other tools like kinesis firehouse Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Streaming data capture

Used for call recordings

And these call recordings were stored in s3 where we can access when ever we want

Best solution for amazon connect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.