
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.
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84 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
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86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+91 Net Emotional Footprint
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Pros
- Saves Time
- Enables Productivity
- Security Protects
- Trustworthy
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Amazon Kinesis Reviews
Abhishek K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2022
Good product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?
As Kinesis is AWS service it is very easy and quick to setup, can be ready in minutes
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Integration with other AWS services. Without much effort data can reach DB in cloud
What do you dislike most about this product?
Data retention of just 7 days
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Consider if you are on cloud, you can focus on development where as AWS will take care of the rest

Dheeraj Kumar B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Energy
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2022
Shards to stream your data efficiently
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?
I have not used other products.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The efficiency and data loading and streaming using shards is the favorite aspect.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes shards with less capacity give errors even if the rate of data is less.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For a quality streaming of data with high efficiency across your applications you can go with kinesis
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Junaid K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2022
Outstanding data generation tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?
Amazon kinesis works on producing on real time data generation from video streamings, live footages and multiplayer games. The data is generated every millisecond in shards. As it is developed by amazon it makes it unique from other products
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I have been using amazon kinesis to generate real time data from EC2 instance that stores the generated data into s3 bucket database. Which is later on accessed by amazon cloudwatch to display on its dashboard
What do you dislike most about this product?
Kinesis generated lots of data in shards. It acquires large amount of storage as it generates data in every millisecond. Apart from this i find every feature of amazon kinesis wonderful
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Please go for it!!
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Inspires Innovation