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Amazon Kinesis

Composite Score

8.1 /10

CX Score

8.4 /10

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What is Amazon Kinesis?

Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly to new information. Amazon Kinesis offers key capabilities to cost-effectively process streaming data at any scale, along with the flexibility to choose the tools that best suit the requirements of your application. Amazon Kinesis enables you to process and analyze data as it arrives and respond instantly instead of having to wait until all your data is collected before the processing can begin.

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Awards & Recognition

Amazon Kinesis won the following awards in the Cloud Management category

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4 Top Rated Capabilities

2 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024

3 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

2024

2 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

2023

Amazon Kinesis Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

84 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

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Since last award

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Product Experience

Negotiation and Contract

Conflict Resolution

Strategy & Innovation

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:: 93%
Negotiation and Contract:: 85%
Conflict Resolution:: 90%
Strategy & Innovation:: 91%
Service Experience:: 92%

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Amazon Kinesis?

2% Negative

4% Neutral

94% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Saves Time
Security Protects
Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Self Service Cloud Services

Cloud SLA Management Governance

Application Release Automation

Performance Monitoring Management

Configuration Validation

Cloud Migration

Cloud Integration

Capacity Management

Cloud Analytics and Reporting

Orchestration and Workflow Management

Automatic Resource Scaling Elasticity

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Customization

Amazon Kinesis Reviews

Megan S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Retail
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

The Real-Time Retail Data Stream

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?

Imagine getting instant alerts if a particular product category suddenly surges in popularity or if there's a spike in abandoned shopping carts on our website. This real-time data empowers us to make data-driven decisions that can significantly impact our sales and customer satisfaction

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Kinesis can handle the massive data volumes we experience during peak retail seasons in Dubai, like Dubai Summer Surprises. No matter how many customers are browsing our website or using our app, Kinesis ensures a smooth flow of data, allowing us to maintain real-time insights.

What do you dislike most about this product?

While powerful, Kinesis itself isn't the most user-friendly platform. It requires some technical expertise to set up and manage data pipelines

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you're a data-driven retailer looking for real-time customer insights, then Kinesis is a powerful tool to consider. However, be sure you have the technical resources in place to manage the platform effectively.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Saves Time
Respectful

Vaibhav D.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Amazon Kinesis - Real-Time Powerhouse

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?

Amazon Kinesis works in a way that's like having a virtual team of servers that automatically handle your data without you needing to worry about them. The cool part is, you only pay for the amount of work they do – not for keeping those servers running all the time.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Amazon Kinesis is made to be super reliable. They make copies of your data and store it in different places, so even if something goes wrong in one area, your info is safe and still accessible.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Amazon Kinesis charges you based on a few things like how much data you use, the time your system is active and how much data you send out.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Keep an eye on how much Amazon Kinesis charges, especially if the amount of data you're working with changes a lot.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Praveen B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Easy integration with Third party tools

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?

Amazon Kinesis is a manages service by Amazon and the customer support is fantastice.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

This is easy to integrate with third party tools used for visualization, dashboarding and pattern mapping.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Need more customization capabilities

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend it for easy integration, easy implementation and fantastic customer support.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Amazon Kinesis Ratings

84 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

Up 1 Since last award

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Up 1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Amazon Kinesis?

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Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Self Service Cloud Services Self-service provisioning (infrastructure, middleware, application) automation, including a service catalog and policy-based life-cycle management capabilities

Cloud SLA Management Governance Collects, aggregates and manages data to ensure adherence to committed service levels.

Application Release Automation Continuously manage the release and maintenance of applications.

Performance Monitoring Management Provide visibility into & control over the performance of servers/VMs, network, storage

Configuration Validation Reviews resources within a cloud footprint to confirm required configurations and standards.

Cloud Migration Migration of applications and workloads to cloud.

Cloud Integration Includes real-time data integration, APIs, and data quality.

Capacity Management Monitor system utilization and provide alerts when pre-defined thresholds are reached.

Cloud Analytics and Reporting The ability to track, report and vizualize cloud resource consumption to support life-cycle management, capacity planning, and (optionally) chargeback/showback

Orchestration and Workflow Management Orchestrating IT Processes such as Provisioning and RunBook Automation across on-prem and cloud workloads

Automatic Resource Scaling Elasticity Ability to scale horizontally to more instances when extra throughput or storage is required.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Amazon Kinesis Reviews

Megan S.

The Real-Time Retail Data Stream

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Vaibhav D.

Amazon Kinesis - Real-Time Powerhouse

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Praveen B.

Easy integration with Third party tools

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Self Service Cloud Services

Cloud SLA Management Governance

Application Release Automation

Performance Monitoring Management

Configuration Validation

Cloud Migration

Cloud Integration

Capacity Management

Cloud Analytics and Reporting

Orchestration and Workflow Management

Automatic Resource Scaling Elasticity

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Customization