Kinesis is a multiform service organized around three subservices: Streams, Firehose, and Analytics. Kinesis acts as a highly available pipeline to stream messages between data producers and data consumers.
- Data producers are sources of data coming from streaming APIs, IoT devices, system logs, and other high volume data streams
- Data consumers will most commonly be used to store, process data, or trigger alerts
Kinesis is able to handle up to 500 Terabytes of data per hour. We use Kinesis at its minimal level and with its most simple configuration. Readers interested in the more complex usage of Kinesis should read the AWS documentation at https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/kinesis/. A good overview of the different concepts and ...
