Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Reviews & Product Details

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a massively scalable, durable, and low-cost streaming data service. Kinesis Data Streams can continuously capture gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of sources, such as website clickstreams, database event streams, financial transactions, social media feeds, IT logs, and location-tracking events. The collected data is available in milliseconds to allow real-time analytics use cases, such as real-time dashboards, real-time anomaly detection, dynamic pricing. Customers run more than two million unique streams and process tens of PB of data per day with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Last updated: Nov 04, 2026

What is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, and what problem is it built to solve?

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is used to ingest and process streaming data in real time, helping teams make events, logs, and other continuously arriving data available to downstream applications without waiting for batch jobs.

What company sizes and industries is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams the best fit for?

Positive experiences span small businesses, mid-market organizations, and enterprises, with notable representation across these industries:

Company sizes: Small Business, Mid-Market, and Enterprise.
Technology: Information Technology and Services and Computer Software.
Financial sector: Financial Services and Banking.
Other represented industries: Retail and Consumer Services.

What customer support options does Amazon Kinesis Data Streams provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

The support experience comes across as mixed but workable. Positive comments describe AWS customer support as helpful, while other support assessments are more moderate, so teams may want to confirm that the support experience available to them meets their needs.

What tools and platforms does Amazon Kinesis Data Streams integrate with, and how do these integrations help users get more value from the product?

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams offers 3 listed integrations, which users connect with streaming workloads to move data into processing, analytics, and storage workflows.

Event processing: AWS Lambda
Data warehousing and analytics: Amazon Redshift
Storage: Amazon S3 Glacier

These connections help route streaming events into downstream processing and data destinations, particularly for teams building within the AWS ecosystem.

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Verified User in Retail

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Easy to get up and running"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Ease of use. From the time we decided to use Kinesis to the time I had a POC done was about 3 hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

The producer library and the consumer library were obviously written by different teams. Instantiating a producer is way different than consumers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Kinesis Data Streams:

Try it, you won't be disappointed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Analytics was an afterthought. It took 24 hours between the time an event occurred and the time a customer could see that event. We replaced our log - zip - move - unzip - read in batches process with a simple pub/sub model and replaced the batch processor with a consumer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/13/2018

"Best service for temporarily storing raw data to process and save."

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

The best thing about kinesis is we can pass on the data to any other service on aws through kinesis firehose. Its the SaaS version of Apache kafka. With very high throughput distributed. We can use it as a pub sub system as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

I dislike that we can not make small query data in to a stream directly for that we have to use Kinesis data analytics and that is an extra thing to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I solved the realtime data processing through Amazon Kinesis. I run a Lambda function that takes data from my raw kinesis stream, process it and save it in to database for direct fetch anytime. It takes less time to extract already solved and processed data to display. It helped in the realtime analytics as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Consumer Goods

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Kinesis Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Kinesis allows us to move data into our data warehouse with minimum hassle. The built-in backup services and optimizations are tailored around our use case. In addition, the Kinesis agent makes it easy to get data from our platform into our pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Limitations of an off-the-shelf solution make it difficult to solve some use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Felipe L.

Software Architect

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Happy user of kinesis"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Speed, analytics, integration, scalability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

I do not have a dislike because it solves my requirement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Great easy streaming, a litttle pain in consuming"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

It's very easy to get started and push data in without having to provision anything or set up anything with multiple consumers reading the data independently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

The library to consume data (KCL) is very clunky and heavy, has additional dynamo db tables that come with it and are a bit messy to manage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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rama p.

solutions architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"managed service with scale"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Managed service with scale, so no maintenance overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Limit to 40MB or 1 minute, which restricts real-time needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Insurance

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/15/2018

"Good alternative to Kafka"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Very simple setup, very little overhead managing the cluster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Working in Java (and Kotlin), had to go through many examples on Github to figure out just how to use it properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Kinesis Data Streams:

I can definitely recommend going with this solution over Kafka, for example. The simplicity of not having to manage the overhead of service discovery and administering Kafka will speed up your development. On the other hand, there is vendor lock involved in this solution, but as far as vendor locking goes, you could do much worse than AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Used Kinesis in order to collect webhook events (via API GW) and stream them to other services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"Support for Spark Direct Streaming"

3/5

What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

Streaming replacement for Kafka, the ability to support large workloads and the fact that it is a managed service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

No support for Direct streaming like Kafka does Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"persistant streaming done right"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

sdk documentation, plus the usual speed, scale, availability etc but its integration with other aws services makes it so much more useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

some of the record/batch size limitations and need to manage it to prevent unexpected failures Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"kinesis is hard to use and manage"

3/5

What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

kinesis is easy to setup, and get started with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

kinesis does not have golang sdk. kinesis does not have a good strategy for having multiple readers. Using kafka was much easier for users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.