Amazon Kinesis is a platform on AWS to send your streaming data too. It is amazons version of Kafka.

Kinesis has three services:

Kinesis Streams

Kinesis Firehose

Kinesis Analytics

Kinesis Streams consist of shards (cluster in Kafka).

You can have 5 Transactions per second for reads.

Provides different solutions to ingest, process and analyse data ( like EventLogs, SocialMedia Feeds, Clickstream Data, Application data and IoT Sensor Data).

Streaming Data: Data that is generated continuously by thousands or millions of data sources or data points that are captured and that needs to be picked up and processed.

Social Network data

Mobile games data

Stock Price data