Tag: Amazon Kinesis

Krones provides breweries, beverage bottlers, and food producers all over the world with individual machines and complete production lines. This post shows how Krones built a streaming solution to monitor their lines, based on Amazon Kinesis and Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. These fully managed services reduce the complexity of building streaming applications with Apache Flink. Managed Service for Apache Flink manages the underlying Apache Flink components that provide durable application state, metrics, logs, and more, and Kinesis enables you to cost-effectively process streaming data at any scale.

In this post, we show you some different options for handling large records within Kinesis Data Streams and the benefits and disadvantages of each approach. We provide some sample code for each option to help you get started with any of these approaches with your own workloads.

June 2025: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Most organizations generate data in real time and ever-increasing volumes. Data is captured from a variety of sources, such as transactional and reporting databases, application logs, customer-facing websites, and external feeds. Companies want to capture, transform, and analyze this time-sensitive data to improve customer experiences, […]

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. February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. When we look at […]

With the release of Kinesis Data Firehose HTTP endpoint delivery, you can now stream your data through Amazon Kinesis or directly push data to Kinesis Data Firehose and configure it to deliver data to MongoDB Atlas. You can also configure Kinesis Data Firehose to transform the data before delivering it to its destination. You don’t have to write applications and manage resources to read data and push to MongoDB. It’s all managed by AWS, making it easier to estimate costs for your data based on your data volume. In this post, we discuss how to integrate Kinesis Data Firehose and MongoDB Cloud and demonstrate how to stream data from your source to MongoDB Atlas.

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 now provides an easy-to-configure and straightforward process for streaming data to a third-party service for analysis, including logs from AWS services. Due to the varying formats and high […]

November 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. The value of data is time sensitive. Streaming data services can help you move data quickly from data sources to new destinations for downstream processing. For example, Amazon Data Firehose can reliably load streaming data into data stores like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and […]

Building a modern data platform on AWS enables you to collect data of all types, store it in a central, secure repository, and analyze it with purpose-built tools. Yet you may be unsure of how to get started and the impact of certain design decisions. To address the need to provide advice tailored to specific technology and application domains, AWS added the concept of well-architected lenses 2017. AWS now is happy to announce the Analytics Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This post provides an introduction of its purpose, topics covered, common scenarios, and services included.

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. February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Most businesses generate data […]

Real-time delivery of data and insights enables businesses to pivot quickly in response to changes in demand, user engagement, and infrastructure events, among many others. Amazon Kinesis offers a managed service that lets you focus on building your applications, rather than managing infrastructure. Scalability is provided out-of-the-box, allowing you to ingest and process gigabytes of […]