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Amazon Kinesis

Composite Score

8.3 /10

CX Score

8.6 /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 Champion

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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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:: 86%
Conflict Resolution:: 90%
Strategy & Innovation:: 92%
Service Experience:: 93%

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

Saves Time
Enables Productivity
Security Protects
Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Application Release Automation

Self Service Cloud Services

Cloud SLA Management Governance

Cloud Migration

Cloud Integration

Performance Monitoring Management

Configuration Validation

Capacity Management

Cloud Analytics and Reporting

Orchestration and Workflow Management

Automatic Resource Scaling Elasticity

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Amazon Kinesis Reviews

Hardik D.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2025

it's very cost effective

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

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

Indrajeet S.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2024

One of the best Real time Data Streaming services

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?

Its a very reliable tool for data streaming, plus it supports multiple regions. Highly scallble and can handle lots of messages per day in our AWS stack.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It integrates seamlessly with other AWS services without any fuss, services like S3, SNS, SQS and Lambda are all very easy to integrate with Kinesis.

What do you dislike most about this product?

A little slow compared to few other tools, Price is also on a little higher side, if not monitored it can be a little difficult to manage. Setup and configuration can be a little complex for someone new to Kinesis

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Currently Improvements in dashboard can help for better visualization. Kinesis should provide some way to see messages like SQS without loosing any messages

Pros

Helps Innovate
Trustworthy
Unique Features
Caring

sameer k.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2023

Great public cloud & One of the best cloud

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?

Easy to use

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like dashboard and support all kind of alarm

What do you dislike most about this product?

Documentation not easy tp understand.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Best services available in this cloud.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Unique Features
Efficient Service

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

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

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

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.

Cloud Migration Migration of applications and workloads to cloud.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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

Hardik D.

it's very cost effective

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Indrajeet S.

One of the best Real time Data Streaming services

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

sameer k.

Great public cloud & One of the best cloud

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Application Release Automation

Self Service Cloud Services

Cloud SLA Management Governance

Cloud Migration

Cloud Integration

Performance Monitoring Management

Configuration Validation

Capacity Management

Cloud Analytics and Reporting

Orchestration and Workflow Management

Automatic Resource Scaling Elasticity

Vendor Capability Ratings

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization