
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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84 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
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86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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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.
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Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Saves Time
- Security Protects
- Trustworthy
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Amazon Kinesis Reviews

Srikar M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2023
Great Product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?
Enhanced Security and Compliance: More advanced security features, encryption options, and compliance certifications for handling sensitive data.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Advanced Data Transformation: Additional features for data transformation and enrichment in the stream, making it easier to process and analyze data as it flows.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Lack of Built-in Analytics: While Amazon Kinesis offers streaming capabilities, users looking for advanced built-in analytics and machine learning features may need to integrate with other AWS services or third-party tools.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Easier Scaling: Simplified auto-scaling capabilities to handle varying workloads and spikes in data ingestion more efficiently.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Prakriti B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2025
Great for live data streams
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?
Data streams through kinesis are fast, and they have pugins that work well with other AWS services
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I love the versatility with large data loads and the fact that kinesis streams pair well with common aws services such as S3.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes streams experience a bit of lag if not carefully configured.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Make sure you're sizing your loads properly and are cost efficient
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Client Friendly Policies
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service

Hardik D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2025
it's very cost effective
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?
its use case, data throughput, and pricing.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
its use case, data throughput, and pricing.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Ui of the product
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
they should use this if they are new to this trend
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Caring