Learning about data streaming with Amazon Kinesis

To analyze your business data, you need to ingest that data into a service that can perform the required analysis on it. Businesses generate tons of data from a wide range of sources, including logs generated by applications, content such as videos, images, and documents, clickstream data from websites, IoT data, and more. Ingesting this data is the first step toward understanding it.

However, rather than ingesting all the data first and then figuring out how you would go about understanding that data, Amazon Kinesis lets you process and analyze data as it arrives and respond to it instantly. Amazon Kinesis is a fully managed service that enables you to process streaming data at any scale in a cost-effective manner. Furthermore, it is serverless, meaning that you do not need to set up and manage expensive infrastructure to process your data. Amazon Kinesis is comprised of the following four key services:

• Amazon Kinesis Data...