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Category: Amazon Kinesis

Encrypt and Decrypt Amazon Kinesis Records Using AWS KMS

Customers with strict compliance or data security requirements often require data to be encrypted at all times, including at rest or in transit within the AWS cloud. This post shows you how to build a real-time streaming application using Kinesis in which your records are encrypted while at rest or in transit. Amazon Kinesis overview […]

Analyzing VPC Flow Logs using Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight

February 2, 2022: Blog updated by Chaitanya Shah. February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Organizations of different size who migrate their applications in cloud or applications born in cloud makes use of various cloud services to innovate and […]

Implement Serverless Log Analytics Using Amazon Kinesis Analytics

Applications log a large amount of data that—when analyzed in real time—provides significant insight into your applications. Real-time log analysis can be used to ensure security compliance, troubleshoot operation events, identify application usage patterns, and much more. Ingesting and analyzing this data in real time can be accomplished by using a variety of open source […]

Derive Insights from IoT in Minutes using AWS IoT, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Ben Snively is a Solutions Architect with AWS Speed and agility are essential with today’s analytics tools. The quicker you can get from idea to first results, the more you can experiment […]

Building an Event-Based Analytics Pipeline for Amazon Game Studios’ Breakaway

All software developers strive to build products that are functional, robust, and bug-free, but video game developers have an extra challenge: they must also create a product that entertains. When designing a game, developers must consider how the various elements—such as characters, story, environment, and mechanics—will fit together and, more importantly, how players will interact […]

Joining and Enriching Streaming Data on Amazon Kinesis

Are you trying to move away from a batch-based ETL pipeline? You might do this, for example, to get real-time insights into your streaming data, such as clickstream, financial transactions, sensor data, customer interactions, and so on.  If so, it’s possible that as soon as you get down to requirements, you realize your streaming data […]

Scale Your Amazon Kinesis Stream Capacity with UpdateShardCount

Allan MacInnis is a Kinesis Solution Architect for Amazon Web Services Starting today, you can easily scale your Amazon Kinesis streams to respond in real time to changes in your streaming data needs. Customers use Amazon Kinesis to capture, store, and analyze terabytes of data per hour from clickstreams, financial transactions, social media feeds, and […]

Monitor Your Application for Processing DynamoDB Streams

In this post, I suggest ways you can monitor the Amazon Kinesis Client Library (KCL) application you use to process DynamoDB Streams to quickly track and resolve issues or failures so you can avoid losing data. Dashboards, metrics, and application logs all play a part. This post may be most relevant to Java applications running on Amazon EC2 instances.