Amazon Kinesis is a platform on AWS to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data at scale. It provides several services tailored to different aspects of streaming data processing: Kinesis Data Streams, Kinesis Data Firehose, and Kinesis Data Analytics. This guide will focus on these services, providing experienced developers with the insights needed to leverage Kinesis for building robust, scalable real-time applications.
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. With SQS, you can send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a variety of messaging and streaming services to facilitate communication and data processing across distributed systems. Among the most popular are Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon EventBridge. Each service serves different purposes and use cases, making it essential to understand their properties, capabilities, and optimal use scenarios. This article provides an in-depth comparison of SQS, SNS, Kinesis, and EventBridge, highlighting their key features, advantages, and best practices.
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) helps deliver web content more quickly by caching copies of the content at various locations around the world. This guide will show you how to create a CDN using AWS services: S3 for storage, CloudFront for content delivery, and Lambda@Edge for image and video processing. Follow these steps to set up your own scalable and optimized CDN.
AWS has divided 95 locations into Regions, Wavelength Zones, and Local Zones. We have 32 AWS Regions, 30 AWS Wavelength Zones, and 33 AWS Local Zones. Across 7 continents, including Africa, Asia Pacific, North America, Europe, Israel, the Middle East, and South America.