We wanted to give you a comprehensive overview of what Kinesis is and how to use it. We also wanted to give our take on the tool’s benefits as well as some of its limitations.
Created by Amazon as part of Amazon Web Services, Kinesis is a comprehensive cloud-based service that controls the entire stream of data from its raw creation to final processing and analysis.
The use cases for AWS Kinesis feel boundless. Sonos, for instance, uses Kinesis to monitor millions of events a day on their customers’ wireless devices. Zillow uses it to deliver updates to home values in practically real time.
AWS Kinesis Data Firehose is a powerful tool for extracting, transforming, and loading streaming data to lakes, stores, and analytics services. Basically, the Firehose is the engine for AWS Kinesis’ entire package of services.