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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Ch 126.4of 23 Event Streaming Platforms
  1. 1Runs onAPI, Web
  2. 2CostsNot stated by the maker
  3. 3Deployment modelcloud
  4. 4Maximum retention365 days
  5. 5Stream processingYes
  6. 6Schema registryYes
  7. 7Delivery guaranteeat-least-once
  8. 8Supported client languagesGo, Java, JavaScript, .NET, PHP, Python, Ruby, C++, Kotlin, Rust, SAP ABAP, Swift
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Overview

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is ranked #12 of 23 in event streaming platforms on Specifiction. It runs on API, Web. There is no free plan.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams plans and pricing

All plans
On-demand Standard Not published pay per GB written and read plus per-stream hourly charge $0.08/GB ingested in US-East · $0.040/GB retrieved in US-East · $0.040 per stream-hour in US-East · 24-hour retention included · optional retention up to 365 days aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
On-demand Advantage Not published pay per GB written and read with account-level minimum usage $0.032/GB ingested in US-East · $0.016/GB retrieved in US-East · 25 MB/s minimum ingested and retrieved at account level · no fixed stream-hour charge · retention up to 365 days aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Provisioned mode Not published pay per shard-hour, PUT payload units, and optional features 1 MB/s write or 1,000 records/s per shard · 2 MB/s read per shard · 25 KB PUT payload units · 24-hour default retention · retention up to 365 days aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026

Compared on event streaming platforms

Free plan
Noaws.amazon.com
Deployment model
cloudaws.amazon.com
Maximum retention
365 daysaws.amazon.com
Stream processing
Yesaws.amazon.com
Schema registry
Yesaws.amazon.com
Delivery guarantee
at-least-onceaws.amazon.com
Supported client languages
Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, PHP, Python, Ruby, C++, Kotlin, Rust, SAP ABAP, Swiftaws.amazon.com

Facts

What it does
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless, real-time data streaming service for capturing, processing, and analyzing data streams at any scale.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Scale
It can continuously capture gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of sources.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Latency
Streaming data can be made available to multiple real-time analytics applications, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, or AWS Lambda within 70 milliseconds of collection.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Availability
Streaming data is synchronously replicated across three Availability Zones in an AWS Region.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Consumer fan-out
A Kinesis data stream can have up to 20 consumers, each with dedicated read throughput.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Retention
Kinesis Data Streams supports retention for up to 365 days.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Security
The service supports server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service keys and private access through Amazon VPC.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Integrations
AWS lists integrations with Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, AWS Database Migration Service, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Lambda, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Data delivery
Kinesis Data Streams can deliver records directly to Amazon S3 Tables as Apache Iceberg tables and to general-purpose Amazon S3 buckets in source format.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Use cases
AWS describes use cases including log and event streaming, real-time analytics, event-driven applications, and real-time AI and machine-learning applications.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Security model
AWS states that security is a shared responsibility and provides guidance for data protection, IAM access control, compliance validation, resilience, and infrastructure security.docs.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Free tier
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is not currently available in the AWS Free Tier.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Getting started
Users can create a stream through the AWS Management Console or CreateStream API, configure producers, and build applications to read and process records.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026

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