Storing and transforming real-time data using Kinesis Data Firehose

There are a lot of use cases that require data to be streamed and stored for future analytics purposes. To overcome such problems, you can write a Kinesis consumer to read the Kinesis stream and store the data in S3. This solution needs an instance or a machine to run the code with the required access to read from the stream and write to S3. The other possible option would be to run a Lambda function that gets triggered on the putRecord or putRecords API made to the stream and reads the data from the stream to store in the S3 bucket:

• To make this easy, Amazon provides a separate service called Kinesis Data Firehose. This can easily be plugged into a Kinesis data stream and will require essential IAM roles to write data into S3. It is a fully managed service to reduce the load of managing servers and code. It also supports loading the streamed data into Amazon Redshift, Elasticsearch, and Splunk. Kinesis Data...