Amazon Kinesis Data Streams: Developer Guide

by Amazon Web Services

This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. With Kinesis Data Streams, you can build custom applications that process or analyze streaming data for specialized needs. It can continuously capture and store terabytes of data per hour from hundreds of thousands of sources such as website clickstreams, financial transactions, social media feeds, IT logs, and location-tracking events. With the Kinesis Client Library (KCL), you can build Kinesis applications and use streaming data to power real-time dashboards, generate alerts, implement dynamic pricing and advertising, and more. You can also emit data from Kinesis Data Streams to other AWS services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR, and AWS Lambda. This guide provides a conceptual overview of Kinesis Data Streams and includes detailed instructions for using the service. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at

398 pages, Kindle Edition