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# Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Reviews
**Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS)  
**Category:** [ETL Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/etl-tools)  
**Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 25
## About Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to reliably load real-time streams into data lakes, warehouses, and analytics services. Kinesis Data Firehose can capture, transform, and load streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and Splunk, enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools and dashboards you’re already using today. It is a fully managed service that automatically scales to match the throughput of your data and requires no ongoing administration. It can also batch, compress, and encrypt the data before loading it, minimizing the amount of storage used at the destination and increasing security.




## Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Reviews
  ### 1. Good service, but not very transparent.

**Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Chris M. | VP of Technology, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2016

**What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose?**

Hooks into Lambda nicely, speed is pretty good for throughput when it's working.

**What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose?**

When you're use to SQS, you want to know more details about processes that are in the pipeline. I know there is an internal "queue" type mechanism but it's not possible to see the status of items that were submitted, or find out if there is a backlog. I wish it acted more like SQS in this respect.

**Recommendations to others considering Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose:**

It's not an alternative to SQS. Keep track of your jobs outside of kinesis and make sure there is retry logic outside of your code.

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

Trying to find a faster version of SQS that also works with AWS Lambda.



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## Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Integrations
  - [Amazon Kinesis Data Streams](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-amazon-kinesis-data-streams/reviews)
  - [Amazon Kinesis Video Streams](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-kinesis-video-streams/reviews)
  - [Amazon S3 Glacier](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-s3-glacier/reviews)

## Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Features
**Data**
- Data Processing
- Data Sources
- Integration
- Real-Time Processing

**Management**
- Reporting
- Auditing

**Analytics**
- Reporting & Analytics

**Functionality**
- Extraction
- Transformation
- Loading
- Automation
- Scalability
- Non-Relational Transformations
- Data Extraction

**Additional Functionality**
- Data Mapping
- Monitoring
- Charting
- Integration Management
- Reporting/Analytics
- Ad hoc Analysis
- Access Controls/Permissions
- API
- Match & Merge
- Real-Time Monitoring
- Metadata Management
- Pipeline Management
- Job Scheduling
- Dashboard Creation
- Data Storage Management
- Multiple Data Sources
- Data Import/Export
- Generative AI
- Data Quality Control
- Data Connectors
- Customizable Reports
- Single Sign On
- Version Control
- Visual Analytics
- Accounting Integration
- Real-Time Data
- eCommerce Management
- AI Copilot
- CRM
- Data Visualization
- SSL Security
- Search/Filter
- Real-Time Analytics
- Data Capture and Transfer
- Collaboration Tools
- Performance Management
- Data Synchronization
- Drag & Drop
- Data Replication
- Activity Dashboard
- Database Support
- Workflow Management
- Alerts/Notifications
- Predictive Analytics
- Data Migration
- Third-Party Integrations
- Reporting & Statistics
- Data Analysis Tools

**Building Reports**
- Data Transformation
- Data Modeling
- WYSIWYG Report Design
- Integration APIs
- Real-Time Data
- Real-Time Data
- Third-Party Integrations
- Third-Party Integrations

**Platform**
- Mobile User Support
- Customization 
- User, Role, and Access Management
- Internationalization
- Sandbox / Test Environments
- Performance and Reliability
- Breadth of Partner Applications
- Mobile Access
- Metadata Management

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