Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Reviews & Product Details

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams offers extremely robust real-time data streaming capabilities. It scales effortlessly by adding shards to meet throughput demand, and supports enhanced fan-out so multiple consumer applications can read in parallel with dedicated throughput.

The seamless integration with other AWS services (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Redshift, Glue, etc.) makes it very convenient if your entire infrastructure lives on AWS.

Its durability is solid — data is synchronously replicated across three Availability Zones in a region, ensuring high availability and resilience.

In my use cases, Kinesis has consistently delivered low-latency streaming and reliable performance even in high-load conditions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The initial learning curve is steep, especially if one is new to streaming architectures or AWS.

Cost management can become complex — as throughput, shard count, retention periods, and consumer patterns grow, pricing can escalate.

The added configuration needed to tie together multiple AWS services (e.g. setting up IAM roles, stream consumers, data pipelines) can make the setup workflow non-trivial.

In some cases, when a consumer falls behind (backlog), scaling out to catch up can be constrained by shard throughput limitations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has made possible to connect multiple data sources and workloads and analyze data especially AWS Redshift and AWS Glue service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It requires lot's of configuration between multiple AWS data services to use and analyze data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is another one of those extremely complicated AWS services to understand. What I love about it is how well it integrates with Pinpoint (another pretty good AWS service) and we used it to set up data streams to monitor user activity on campaigns, Marketing emails in real time. This provided some great data and the cost was pretty much negligible - so in that aspect (and data streams can do much more - I'm just using one of our main test cases as an example) it's a great service to use. But, pretty complex to set up and understand fully in my opinion.

Great and granular reporting though - one can really learn a lot about and benefit from knowing what users do on the site, after clicking emails, the entire workflow as it were if one takes the time to learn.

Amazon actively uses this service itself to prosper. That alone should tell you a lot! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Could be made less complex to set up and use. Perhaps the integration could be expanded to include other out of the box solutions like wordpress, related plugins etc... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kinesis is a managed service by AWS and if the entire stack of the ogranisation is in AWS, it is easily integratable and makes the solutions and data movement very quickly, compared to moving the data out of AWS. Thus it is more secure, due to data proximity. Kinesis has all the features that the pears support. Customer support is excellent with the AWS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel setting up of the kenesis is comparitively difficult due to extremely complicated documentation. Also being a managed service,the user do not have much insiglts within the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Kinesis is a real time or near real time streaming service provided by Amazon which helps us get data from various data sources to any managed data source solution in aws. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon Kinesis one disadvantage is that once the data is pushed into Kinesis its difficult to understand how the data is devised into shards.It also lacks proper queueing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most striking feature of Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is its scalability and real-time data processing capabilities. It effortlessly handles high volumes of data from multiple sources, allowing businesses to generate actionable insights instantaneously. The service's integration with other AWS services makes it incredibly versatile for a wide range of applications, from real-time analytics to machine learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Kinesis is powerful, it comes with a steep learning curve, especially for those not familiar with AWS or real-time data processing. Its cost structure can also be challenging to predict, as it is based on various factors like data volume, shard count, and data retention period. Without proper management and monitoring, costs can escalate quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Very reliable and fast for real time data streaming. It supports multiple regions close to customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Increasing shards always needs manual effort and routing data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

its helpfull for realtime data when we need it to display in our dashboard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As of now its good for our usages. There is no -ve I have found yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kinesis data stream helps you set up and work with streaming data. It is easy to use and has good integration with rest of the AWS ecosystem like S3, SNS, SQS, and Lambda.

It is highly scalable and handles millions of messages per day in our AWS stack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kinesis data stream meets our requirements for real-time data streaming - haven't found anything in the feature that I do not like. One suggestion is to have better tools for browsing realtime data streams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.