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Read 10 Amazon Kinesis reviews.
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Matt Newman
A great managed service that's simple and easy to maintain
Instead of doing batch jobs of an ETL, like moving data into a data warehouse, we're now able to do it all through a continuous stream in Kinesis.... Read more →
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  • "Under $1,000 per month."
  • "The solution's pricing is fair."

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    What do you like most about Amazon Kinesis?
    Top Answer:The scalability is pretty good.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Kinesis?
    Top Answer:The solution's pricing is fair. The trick lies in Amazon's pricing. They charge according to the different layers of or types of data that is transfered.
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    What needs improvement with Amazon Kinesis?
    Top Answer:Amazon Kinesis is not a bad product, but Azure Event Hub provides us with certain operational advantages, as our focus is on Microsoft related coding. This is why .NET is what we use at the backend… more »
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    2nd
    out of 38 in Streaming Analytics
    Views
    8,875
    Comparisons
    6,886
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    10
    Average Words per Review
    1,158
    Rating
    8.4
    11th
    out of 38 in Streaming Analytics
    Views
    4,278
    Comparisons
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    Also Known As
    Amazon AWS Kinesis, AWS Kinesis, Kinesis
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    Overview

    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. With Amazon Kinesis, you can ingest real-time data such as video, audio, application logs, website clickstreams, and IoT telemetry data for machine learning, analytics, and other applications. 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.

    Google Dataflow is a unified programming model and a managed service for developing and executing a wide range of data processing patterns including ETL, batch computation, and continuous computation. Cloud Dataflow frees you from operational tasks like resource management and performance optimization.
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    Sample Customers
    Zillow, Netflix, Sonos
    Absolutdata, Backflip Studios, Bluecore, Claritics, Crystalloids, Energyworx, GenieConnect, Leanplum, Nomanini, Redbus, Streak, TabTale
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company22%
    Media Company16%
    Comms Service Provider16%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Comms Service Provider20%
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Retailer9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise38%
    Large Enterprise13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise72%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Amazon Kinesis is ranked 2nd in Streaming Analytics with 10 reviews while Google Cloud Dataflow is ranked 11th in Streaming Analytics. Amazon Kinesis is rated 8.4, while Google Cloud Dataflow is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Amazon Kinesis writes "Easily replay your streaming data with this reliable solution". On the other hand, Amazon Kinesis is most compared with Apache Flink, Azure Stream Analytics, Apache Spark Streaming, Confluent and Databricks, whereas Google Cloud Dataflow is most compared with Apache NiFi, Apache Flink, Databricks, Amazon MSK and Azure Stream Analytics.

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