What is Amazon Kinesis?
Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly to new information. Amazon Kinesis offers key capabilities to cost-effectively process streaming data at any scale, along with the flexibility to choose the tools that best suit the requirements of your application. Amazon Kinesis enables you to process and analyze data as it arrives and respond instantly instead of having to wait until all your data is collected before the processing can begin.
Company Details
Need Assistance?
We're here to help you with understanding our reports and the data inside to help you make decisions.
Get AssistanceAmazon Kinesis Ratings
Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
Download the entire Product Scorecard
to access more information on Amazon Kinesis.
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
84 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
1
Since last award
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
1
Since last award
Emotional Footprint Overview
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
+91 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Amazon Kinesis?
Pros
- Saves Time
- Enables Productivity
- Security Protects
- Trustworthy
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
Footprint
Negative
Neutral
Positive
Feature Ratings
Application Release Automation
Self Service Cloud Services
Cloud SLA Management Governance
Cloud Migration
Cloud Integration
Performance Monitoring Management
Configuration Validation
Capacity Management
Cloud Analytics and Reporting
Orchestration and Workflow Management
Automatic Resource Scaling Elasticity
Vendor Capability Ratings
Usability and Intuitiveness
Business Value Created
Quality of Features
Ease of Implementation
Breadth of Features
Availability and Quality of Training
Vendor Support
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Data Integration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Customization
Amazon Kinesis Reviews
Srikar M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2023
Great Product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?
Enhanced Security and Compliance: More advanced security features, encryption options, and compliance certifications for handling sensitive data.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Advanced Data Transformation: Additional features for data transformation and enrichment in the stream, making it easier to process and analyze data as it flows.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Lack of Built-in Analytics: While Amazon Kinesis offers streaming capabilities, users looking for advanced built-in analytics and machine learning features may need to integrate with other AWS services or third-party tools.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Easier Scaling: Simplified auto-scaling capabilities to handle varying workloads and spikes in data ingestion more efficiently.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Awolu S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2025
Real-Time Data Streaming
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?
Its real-time data streaming is highly powerful for analysis, with excellent accessibility and support.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Amazon Kinesis easily scales to accommodate changing data loads, adapting to the growing demands of your business. It supports real-time streaming data processing, delivering timely insights and analytics for better decision-making. With smooth integration across other AWS services, it creates a unified cloud environment for diverse applications.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Data visibility and scalability could be further enhanced. With increased data throughput, it would be even more valuable if supported by improved data visualization capabilities.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommend evaluating your real-time data processing needs to ensure Amazon Kinesis aligns with your requirements.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
Prakriti B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2025
Great for live data streams
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?
Data streams through kinesis are fast, and they have pugins that work well with other AWS services
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I love the versatility with large data loads and the fact that kinesis streams pair well with common aws services such as S3.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes streams experience a bit of lag if not carefully configured.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Make sure you're sizing your loads properly and are cost efficient
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Client Friendly Policies
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
