AWS Big Data Blog
Author: Julian Payne
Migrate from Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink and Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink Studio
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL is a data stream processing engine that helps you run your own SQL code against streaming sources to perform time series analytics, feed real-time dashboards, and create real-time metrics. AWS has made the decision to discontinue Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL, effective January 27, 2026. In this post, we explain why we plan to end support for Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL, alternative AWS offerings, and how to migrate your SQL queries and workloads.