Amazon Kinesis Data Streams pricing
3 plans read from aws.amazon.com
On-demand AdvantagePrice 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 Read 1 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
On-demand StandardPrice 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 Read 1 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Provisioned modePrice not published pay per shard-hour, PUT payload units, and optional features1 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 Read 1 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
In short
- Amazon Kinesis Data Streams has a free plan (On-demand Advantage).
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|---|---|---|---|
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| Apache RocketMQ | — | Yes | No |
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| Redpanda | — | Yes | Yes |
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| Apache Pulsar | — | Yes | No |
| Keen Product Analytics | $149/mo | No | No |