Amazon Kinesis is AWS's service for collecting, processing, and analyzing real-time streaming data, including Data Streams and Firehose. It targets teams building streaming applications on AWS who want a managed, serverless option via on-demand mode. The service uses a proprietary API that is not Kafka-compatible, and it is not open-source or self-hostable. Pricing is shard and throughput usage based, with no perpetual free tier. Kinesis carries SOC2, ISO27001, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS compliance.
managedaws-nativeserverless
Overview
- Founded
- 2013
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Streaming / messaging
- Free tier
- No
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Managed service
- Yes
- Kafka-compatible
- No
- Serverless
- Yes