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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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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

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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.

85 Likeliness to Recommend

2
Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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?

3% Negative

4% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Unique Features
Saves Time
Appreciates Incumbent Status

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Cloud SLA Management Governance

Performance Monitoring Management

Cloud Integration

Self Service Cloud Services

Application Release Automation

Cloud Migration

Capacity Management

Cloud Analytics and Reporting

Configuration Validation

Orchestration and Workflow Management

Automatic Resource Scaling Elasticity

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Amazon Kinesis Reviews

Dheeraj Kumar B.

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

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Submitted Mar 2022

Shards to stream your data efficiently

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?

I have not used other products.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The efficiency and data loading and streaming using shards is the favorite aspect.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Sometimes shards with less capacity give errors even if the rate of data is less.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For a quality streaming of data with high efficiency across your applications you can go with kinesis

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Junaid K.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2022

Outstanding data generation tool

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?

Amazon kinesis works on producing on real time data generation from video streamings, live footages and multiplayer games. The data is generated every millisecond in shards. As it is developed by amazon it makes it unique from other products

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I have been using amazon kinesis to generate real time data from EC2 instance that stores the generated data into s3 bucket database. Which is later on accessed by amazon cloudwatch to display on its dashboard

What do you dislike most about this product?

Kinesis generated lots of data in shards. It acquires large amount of storage as it generates data in every millisecond. Apart from this i find every feature of amazon kinesis wonderful

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Please go for it!!

Pros

Helps Innovate
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Inspires Innovation

Muhammed K.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2022

smart real time data processing feature.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?

Amazon kinesis works on real time data such as multiplayer games, machine learning models, live streamings, etc. Kinesis processes real time data which is generated by one application and it can be accessed by another application.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Kinesis Video Stream helps me processing data generated in milliseconds from cctv, youtube live streams and live videos. The generated data is shown on all other devices that are viewing that video. Also, kinesis data stream processes real time data generated in milliseconds from applications such as EC2 Instance and is stored in amazon S3, dynamo databases and is accessed by application such Cloudwatch which shows real time data on a dashboard

What do you dislike most about this product?

It is amazing product of amazon, hence i dont dislike anything about amazon kenesis

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Go for it!! Its really an amazingly designed product built by amazon.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Trustworthy
Inspires Innovation
Saves Time

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Amazon Kinesis Ratings

85 Likeliness to Recommend

2 Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Amazon Kinesis?

Pros

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cloud Migration Migration of applications and workloads to cloud.

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

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

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

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

Dheeraj Kumar B.

Shards to stream your data efficiently

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Junaid K.

Outstanding data generation tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Muhammed K.

smart real time data processing feature.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Cloud SLA Management Governance

Performance Monitoring Management

Cloud Integration

Self Service Cloud Services

Application Release Automation

Cloud Migration

Capacity Management

Cloud Analytics and Reporting

Configuration Validation

Orchestration and Workflow Management

Automatic Resource Scaling Elasticity

Vendor Capability Ratings

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization