Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

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What job does it solve?

Ordered records, independent consumers, and replay within retention are required.

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Where does it stop?

Each message should be consumed as a queue job or only simple topic fanout is needed.

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Closely related services

• Amazon Data FirehoseManaged delivery of streaming records to supported destinations with buffering and optional transformation.
• Amazon MSKManaged Apache Kafka clusters and serverless capacity on AWS.
• Amazon SQSA durable message queue where competing consumers receive and delete work independently of producers.

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Lessons that mention it

• Lesson 19Send each message to the right consumers
• Lesson 32Ingestion frequency, streaming, transfer, and secure entry

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