--- title: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Reviews meta\_title: 'Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 15 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 15 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Cloud Data Integration url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-data-integration --- # Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics but has limited features. Are you part of the Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is the easiest way to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Kinesis Data Analytics reduces the complexity of building, managing, and integrating Apache Flink applications with other AWS services. Kinesis Data Analytics takes care of everything required to run streaming applications continuously, and scales automatically to match the volume and throughput of your incoming data. With Kinesis Data Analytics, there are no servers to manage, no minimum fee or setup cost, and you only pay for the resources your streaming applications consume. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Community](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-kinesis-data-analytics/discuss) Overview by Anna Montalat Campamar (Product Marketing @ Amazon Web Services | Ex-Microsoft | Kellogg MBA) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![SAS Viya](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SAS Viya") SAS Viya 4.3/5(817) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sas-sas-viya/reviews) [ ![HubSpot Data Hub](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "HubSpot Data Hub") HubSpot Data Hub 4.5/5(578) ](https://www.g2.com/products/hubspot-data-hub/reviews) [ ![Tealium](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tealium") Tealium 4.3/5(479) ](https://www.g2.com/products/tealium-2026-07-21/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-kinesis-data-analytics/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 15 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Integrations (3) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Apache Flink ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-flink/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Flink ](https://www.g2.com/products/flink/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") FlinkML ](https://www.g2.com/products/flinkml/reviews) Show More ![Atharva P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Atharva P.") AP Atharva P. Cloud BI Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/30/2026 "Powerful, Low-Latency Stream Processing with Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics? We previously used Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for real-time stream processing. AWS later renamed the service to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, and with the retirement of SQL Applications, we've transitioned our workloads to Apache Flink applications while maintaining the same streaming architecture. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics allowed us to build real-time streaming pipelines without managing Apache Flink clusters ourselves. I particularly liked support for event-time processing, stateful streaming, windowed aggregations, checkpointing, and automatic scaling. After migrating to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, these capabilities became even more powerful while maintaining operational simplicity. The service integrates naturally with Kinesis streams, Kafka, Amazon S3, and CloudWatch. Performance has been excellent for processing millions of streaming events with very low latency. Automatic scaling and managed infrastructure significantly reduced operational overhead compared to self-hosted Flink clusters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics? Developing complex streaming applications requires familiarity with Apache Flink concepts, making the learning curve steeper than traditional batch processing. Debugging distributed stream processing jobs can also be challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you? The platform enabled near real-time analytics on streaming application data without requiring us to manage streaming infrastructure. Example: Application logs and clickstream events were continuously ingested, enriched, aggregated, and written into analytical data stores. Business dashboards reflected user behaviour within seconds instead of waiting for scheduled ETL jobs, allowing operational teams to react much faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 IconCurrent UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jayanna T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jayanna T.") JT Jayanna T. Senior Consultant Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/21/2022 "Best use case for data streaming with IOT devices" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics? Easy to setup and integrate with IOT devices and IOT applications with scalable data streaming and processing real-time data analytics with multiple peer devices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics? At max we can create 50 data streams at a time, if we need more we may need to contact support .. again it is a tedious task. A single shard can ingest upto max 1MB of data or 1000 messages at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you? The main solution is easy to setup and monitoring, next is easy integration with any application using full fledged api's. well documented and api details to integrate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Entertainment](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Entertainment") UE Verified User in Entertainment Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/3/2022 "The right tool for mass data transformation? KDA!" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics? I really like to work with the tool and like its capabilities. Easy to deploy even Flink is complex stuff. After understanding the concept, it can be used in a very intense situation. The possibility of the use cases is endless. What I also really like about the product, is that AWS guys are really supportive of this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics? It's not about the product but the available resource that can support you. Since it's a complex tool, and not widely used, it's hard to find reliable support, even in AWS. I believe a lot has to invest in evangelization and learning possibilities of the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you? It's capable of mass-transform json or avro based messages for a specific model (can it be a metric or other data). In our use case, we are using it for client-data-transformation for monitoring purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in E-Learning](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in E-Learning") UE Verified User in E-Learning Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/3/2022 "Amazon Kinesis for Streaming Data." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics? Well managed, easy to use. One can learn and use it very easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics? It is a very well-managed service. Not a queue system, so little visibility into "backlog" if there is any. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you? Was working on some streaming-based data processing. With help of Kinesis Analytics was able to apply analysis on streaming data directly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![AbdulMajeed M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "AbdulMajeed M.") AM AbdulMajeed M. Senior Scrum Master Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/17/2021 "A savior for reliable processing of real-time data." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics? Apart from its scalability, I would say processing real-time data collected from the web services that we use in our organization. In my personal opinion I have used Kinesis for developing applications for customers who asked about real-time data processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics? My team and myself have been using Kinesis for quite some time and I will be very honest that I have nothing that I can mention about what I dislike about Kinesis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics: its one of the best applications which helps the research and development teams to process real-time data directly from the AWS console. Among all the features I think its feature to allow scalability is the best. It gives a holistic experience for a developer when its comes to deployments of the product. It stores data which can be easily processed by using the AI tools for near real time applications. One of the best and most helpful when it comes to managing real-time streaming data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you? In my opinion, its one of the best applications which helps the research and development teams to process real-time data directly from the AWS console. Among all the features I think its feature to allow scalability is the best. It gives a holistic experience for a developer when its comes to deployments of the product. It stores data which can be easily processed by using the AI tools for near real time applications. One of the best and most helpful when it comes to managing real-time streaming data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite GR Gavin R. Softare Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/28/2018 "I love Kinesis" 5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics? The scalability and ease of use. The KCL and KPL libraries along with the AWS SDK make it really easy to work with, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics? Working with shard iterators is not so great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics: Make sure you understand the difference between Kinesis and SQS and their relative strengths and weaknesses before deciding to use either product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you? HIgh volume event data streaming, consumption, processing and storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Sri Harsha M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sri Harsha M.") SM Sri Harsha M. Tech Lead Automotive Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/28/2018 "Data replication for APIs/Analytics using Kinesis streams " 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics? Easy to set up and throttle the size/messages limits Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics? The size limit can be further increased and the frequency can be reduced to less than a minute Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you? Analytics and machine learning data ingres using Kinesis streams for external users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Computer Games](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Games") UC Verified User in Computer Games Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/27/2018 "Easy Analytics" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics? Ease of use, were able to setup a telemetry pipeline in one week Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics? Some of the lambda hookups are strange in regards to provisioning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you? Telemetry pipelines. Able to have adata flowing with little overheard on the ops team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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