Using Kinesis Streams

Kinesis Streams is a fully managed service for real-time processing of high-volume streaming data. It processes data in real time, and enables highly scalable parallel processing. There are source libraries for sending data to and reading data from a stream. It synchronously replicates your data across three facilities, and is integrated with many AWS and third-party services. It also supports SSL and automatic encryption of data once it is uploaded.

AWS Kinesis makes large-scale data ingestion a lot simpler. It is easy to administer. You have to essentially create a new stream and set the desired capacity in terms of shards. You can scale your capacity to match your data throughput rates and expected volumes. It is ...

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