Category: Amazon Kinesis

We are living in a golden age of innovation, where personalized medicine is making it possible to cure diseases that we never thought curable. Digital medicine is helping people with diseases get healthier, and we are constantly discovering how to use the body’s immune system to target and eradicate cancer cells. According to a report […]

Clickstream events are small pieces of data that are generated continuously with high speed and volume. Often, clickstream events are generated by user actions, and it is useful to analyze them. For example, you can detect user behavior in a website or application by analyzing the sequence of clicks a user makes, the amount of […]

In this post, we talk about designing a cloud-native data warehouse as a replacement for our legacy data warehouse built on a relational database. At the beginning of the design process, the simplest solution appeared to be a straightforward lift-and-shift migration from one relational database to another. However, we decided to step back and focus […]

This blog post discusses an efficient architecture to stream, analyze, and store Microsoft Exchange Server logs. For frequent queries and operational analytics, we use Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) and Kibana for real-time visualization.

Recently, AWS launched a new feature of AWS Application Auto Scaling that let you define scaling policies that automatically add and remove shards to an Amazon Kinesis Data Stream. For more detailed information about this feature, see the Application Auto Scaling GitHub repository. As your streaming information increases, you require a scaling solution to accommodate […]

AWS re:Invent 2018 is almost here! This post includes a list of Amazon Kinesis sessions, chalk talks, and workshops at AWS re:Invent 2018. You can choose the link next to each session description for the session schedule. Use the information to help schedule your conference week in Las Vegas to learn more about Amazon Kinesis. Sessions ANT208 – […]

Understanding Windows system and service health on a global scale is challenging. You capture server log data, and then analyze and manipulate the data in real time to create actionable telemetry insights. Amazon Kinesis Agent for Microsoft Windows makes it efficient to ingest Windows server log data into your AWS ecosystem for analysis. This blog […]

A complete data pipeline that includes Amazon Kinesis Agent for Microsoft Windows (KA4W) can help you analyze and monitor the performance, security, and availability of Windows-based services. You can build near-real-time dashboards and alarms for your Windows services. You can also use visualization and business intelligence tools such as Amazon Athena, Kibana, Amazon QuickSight, and […]

In this blog post, we describe the complete solution for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing VPC flow log data. In addition, we created a single AWS CloudFormation template that lets you efficiently deploy this solution into your own account.

In part 1 of this series, we demonstrated how to build a data pipeline in support of a data lake. We used key AWS services such as Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Kinesis Data Analytics, Kinesis Data Firehose, and AWS Lambda. In part 2, we discuss how to process and visualize the data by creating a […]