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Category: Amazon Kinesis

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Effective data lakes using AWS Lake Formation, Part 2: Creating a governed table for streaming data sources

February 2023: The content of this blog post can be now be found on AWS Lake Formation public documentation. Please refer to it instead. We announced the general availability of AWS Lake Formation transactions, row-level security, and acceleration at AWS re:Invent 2021. In Part 1 of this series, we explained how to set up a […]

Now Available: Updated guidance on the Data Analytics Lens for AWS Well-Architected Framework

Nearly all businesses today require some form of data analytics processing, from auditing user access to generating sales reports. For all your analytics needs, the Data Analytics Lens for AWS Well-Architected Framework provides prescriptive guidance to help you assess your workloads and identify best practices aligned to the AWS Well-Architected Pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, […]

Continuous monitoring with Sumo Logic using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose HTTP endpoints

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose streams data to AWS destinations such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, and Amazon OpenSearch Service. Additionally, Kinesis Data Firehose supports destinations to third-party partners. […]

Query your Amazon MSK topics interactively using Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink Studio

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink Studio makes it easy to analyze streaming data in real time and build stream processing applications powered by Apache Flink using […]

How NortonLifelock built a serverless architecture for real-time analysis of their VPN usage metrics

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. This post presents a reference architecture and optimization strategies for building serverless data analytics solutions on AWS using Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. In addition, this post shows […]

Register now for Flink Forward Global, October 26-27, 2021

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. Flink Forward Global 2021 is a 2-day virtual conference for the Apache Flink and stream processing communities. Apache Flink is an open-source distributed engine for processing data […]

Amazon Data Firehose now supports dynamic partitioning to Amazon S3

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Amazon Data Firehose provides a convenient way to reliably load streaming data into data lakes, data stores, and analytics services. It can capture, transform, and deliver streaming data to Amazon Simple Storage […]

How MEDHOST’s cardiac risk prediction successfully leveraged AWS analytic services

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. MEDHOST has been providing products and services to healthcare facilities of all types and sizes for over 35 years. Today, more than 1,000 healthcare facilities are partnering with MEDHOST and enhancing their […]

Secure multi-tenant data ingestion pipelines with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. When designing multi-tenant streaming ingestion pipelines, there are myriad ways to design and build your streaming solution, each with its own set of trade-offs. The first decision […]

Auto scaling Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda

This post is co-written with Noah Mundahl, Director of Public Cloud Engineering at United Health Group. Update (12/1/2021): Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand mode is now the recommended way to natively auto scale your Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. In this post, we cover a solution to add auto scaling to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Whether […]