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 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.