Amazon Data Firehose

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What job does it solve?

Streaming data should be loaded into a destination without managing stream consumers.

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Where does it stop?

Applications need custom per-record consumption, long replay, or direct stream control.

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Closely related services

• Amazon Kinesis Data StreamsA retained partitioned stream for high-throughput records that multiple consumers can read and replay.
• Amazon S3Durable object storage for data addressed by bucket and object key rather than as a mounted disk.
• Amazon RedshiftManaged columnar data warehousing for analytical SQL over large datasets.

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Lessons that mention it

• Lesson 32Ingestion frequency, streaming, transfer, and secure entry

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