Analytics
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Kinesis ingests and processes high-volume streaming data with ordered records inside shards. It can feed near-real-time GenAI enrichment while absorbing producer and consumer rate differences.
Key points
- Kinesis Data Streams retains records for replay
- Partition keys determine shard placement and per-key ordering
- Enhanced fan-out gives registered consumers dedicated read throughput
When to use it
- Stream contact-center transcripts to summarization workers
- Capture live application events for anomaly explanations
Exam tips
- Use Kinesis when ordered replayable streams matter; EventBridge is better for discrete routed business events
- Plan shard capacity and idempotent consumers because retries can repeat processing