Kinesis on Ubuntu 24.04

Amazon Kinesis is a managed streaming data platform designed to collect, process, and analyze real-time data streams from applications, servers, IoT devices, logs, and clickstreams. It enables organizations to handle high-throughput data ingestion with low latency and scale seamlessly based on workload demands.

Amazon Kinesis supports multiple streaming use cases through services such as Kinesis Data Streams for real-time data processing and Kinesis Data Firehose for automatic data delivery to destinations like Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon Redshift, and analytics tools. It is widely used for log analytics, real-time monitoring, event-driven architectures, and streaming ETL pipelines.

Features of Amazon Kinesis:

• Real-time ingestion and processing of streaming data.
• Fully managed and scalable streaming infrastructure.
• Supports Kinesis Data Streams and Kinesis Data Firehose.
• Low-latency data processing for real-time analytics.
• Seamless integration with AWS analytics and storage services.
• Ideal for log streaming, IoT data, clickstreams, and event processing.

To verify Amazon Kinesis configuration and access, use the following steps:

 Configure AWS credentials: $ aws configure

List Kinesis streams:
$ aws kinesis list-streams --region us-east-1

Describe a stream:
$ aws kinesis describe-stream --stream-name my-stream --region us-east-1

Disclaimer: Amazon Kinesis is a managed cloud service provided by AWS. Users are responsible for configuring IAM permissions, stream capacity, data retention, security policies, and cost controls. It is recommended to follow AWS best practices for monitoring, encryption, and access management when deploying streaming data solutions.