Posted On: Mar 22, 2018

Real-Time Web Analytics with Kinesis Data Analytics is a solution that can help you more easily track website activity. This solution automatically provisions the services necessary to track and visualize website clickstream data in real-time. The Real-Time Web Analytics with Kinesis Data Analytics solution is designed to provide a framework for analyzing and visualizing metrics in real-time, allowing you to focus on adding new metrics rather than managing the underlying infrastructure.

The solution deploys Amazon EC2 for beacon web servers that log requests from a user’s web browser, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to capture website clickstream data, Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to compute metrics in real-time, and Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB to durably store metric data. The solution also features a customizable dashboard that visualizes your account activity in real-time and an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard that visualizes beacon server performance metrics. For pricing details, see the pricing webpage for each AWS service you will be using in this solution. To learn more about the Real-Time Web Analytics with Kinesis Data Analytics, see the solution webpage.  

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