Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Reviews & Product Details

Data streams can be integrated with multiple AWS resources and through the collected logs, it's super easy to analyze them. I have used Kibana for dashboarding and Kinesis made my work super easy! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It doesn't offer that much 3rd party integrations, a tool like this should have integrations with other platforms as well, this will bring more audience and people will get to know how amazing this service is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are many ways to deal with streaming data, like Kafka, Samsa etc. Even though there is a managed Kafka service, Kinesis is different because it is closely integrated with numerous AWS services. You can quickly ingest with S3 using Kinesis Firehose or process it with Lambda etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You should know how sharding and resharding work well to utilize the service to the fullest. Knowledge of splitting and merging shards to maximize performance and lower costs is a must-have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

High throughput, and using it with Kinesis Firehose to store it. Doing that gave me a reliable solution to store raw data on S3 and start from there to build the warehouse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I did not face any issue from a technical point of view, but from the bills, I can see that the cost will go extremely high when we start doubling and tripling the data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Many available options like Kafa, Azure, etc but this outshines everyone as it is closely integrated with other AWS microservices. It helps to build the entire infrastructure using AWS. Real-time is the best thing. Also, support is good along with frequent improvements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting up kinesis is a comparatively harder task. I could set up Azure and manage Kafka services a bit more easily. Documentation can be improved to some extent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kinesis Data stream provides a helpful tool to stream data in real time from multiple sources to multiple destinations, can integrate with some analytic tools like Kinesis data analytics, Glue, .... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kinesis data stream can be an expensive service when data transfer is large. Also, we need to learn how to use Kinesis data stream to configure shards, read and write data from the stream, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI is too awesome to use by a student. The ease of use. The report generation is just beautiful. The colour variation of the report are so clear to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting up environment is little trickey. Environment setup can be more easy while comparing with other reporting tool. Whatever rest all are just super, loved it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's very easy to manage for a service of its kind. It has great integrations with other AWS services and we appreciate the continual improvements and additions by the AWS team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be not very cost effective under some circumstances, for example when using auto-scaling or when dealing with volumes of data below what 1 shard can handle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is straightforward to perform initial setup and connectivity with other AWS services. Kinesis firehose makes it really easy. You can easily check streaming statistics using logs & metrics which makes it really useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Check log sometimes is more complicate than other clouds but overall it is not a major issue. I would suggest to use this service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Serverless platforms are a godsend because they are very easy to manage. Kinesis integrated well with all Amazon services and is highly scalable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The terminology is a bit difficult to understand. It is also difficult to check for backlogs, since it does not entail a queue system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are using Amazon Kinesis Data Stream for one of the renowned banks in the world. We are using Kinesis to stream their KYC data every hour into an S3 bucket and encrypt it into another bucket. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much dislike to this tool; the only thing I noticed during our build part is that we cannot check data in Kinesis when data is processed as it is divided into shards. Need a little clarity here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.