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Tag: Amazon Kinesis

Build a Real-time Stream Processing Pipeline with Apache Flink on AWS

NOTE: As of November 2018, you can run Apache Flink programs with Amazon Kinesis Analytics for Java Applications in a fully managed environment. You can find further details in a new blog post on the AWS Big Data Blog and in this Github repository. ————————– September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. […]

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 […]

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 […]

How SmartNews Built a Lambda Architecture on AWS to Analyze Customer Behavior and Recommend Content

This is a guest post by Takumi Sakamoto, a software engineer at SmartNews. SmartNews in their own words: “SmartNews is a machine learning-based news discovery app that delivers the very best stories on the Web for more than 18 million users worldwide.” Data processing is one of the key technologies for SmartNews. Every team’s workload […]