AWS Kinesis Link to heading

Service for high support streaming data from different sources (games, amazon purchaces, stock pirces, etc)

Basics Link to heading

• 3 kinesis: Streams, Firehose and Analytics
• producers (ec2, mobiles, computers, IoT devs)
• consumers (ec2 instances, redshift, elasticsearch)

Kinesis Streams Link to heading

• data producers -> kinesis streams (stored 24h-7days) in shards -> data consumers -> storage
• the capacity is measured by the number of shards

Kinesis Firehose Link to heading

• data producers -> kinesis firehose (not need for data consumers nor shards) -> s3 -> data consumers
• data is not stored, it gets deleted as soon is proceesed by firehose

Kinesis Analytics Link to heading

• data procucers -> kinesis analytics -> data consumers (s3, redshift, es)
• fast sql over the data