Amazon Kinesis

• collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data

• Real-time data processing

• clickstream data processing

• it is fully managed, highly scalable

• default retention is 24hrs, but can be extended to 7days (useful when the destination (S3) is not getting all the data from Kinesis)

• Kinesis Video Streams

  • securely stream video from connected devices to AWS for analytics, machine learning (ML), and other processing

• Kinesis Data Streams

  • real-time data streaming service that can continuously capture gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of sources.

• Kinesis Data Firehose

  • capture, transform, and load data streams into AWS data stores for near real-time analytics

• Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

  • process data streams in real time with SQL or Apache Flink without having to learn change existing code/application