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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS)

byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
in Event Stream Processing
4.8

Overview

Product Information on Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS)

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS)?

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a software designed for collecting, processing, and analyzing real-time streaming data. It enables users to ingest large volumes of data generated by a variety of sources such as logs, events, and telemetry from distributed applications and devices. The software allows for scalable and durable stream storage, with the ability to shard data for parallel processing. It facilitates the development of applications that process or analyze streaming data for use cases including real-time analytics, dashboards, and data movement between systems. Businesses address challenges related to timely data processing and operational insights by integrating this software into their data architecture.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) Pricing

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a software that uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on the volume of data ingested, stored, and retrieved, with charges calculated according to the number of shard hours, payload data volume, and data retention time selected by users.

Overall experience with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS)

CLOUD ENGINEER / CLOUD SPECIALIST
500M - 1B USD, Banking
FAVORABLE

“In Depth Review of AWS KDS”

5.0
Nov 10, 2025
Exceptionally great product for real time data streaming of the aws native services like EC2 , RDS, Lambda etc. The KDS allows you to share the data with the third party vendor as well using cloudwatch which helps to increase the observability of your environment
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CRITICAL

About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Updated 23rd December 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://aws.amazon.com

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Performance of Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) Across Market Features

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) Likes & Dislikes

Like

1. the horizontal scaling helps to ingest the data from multiple producer and can provide to multiple consumers. 2. Real time processing works on low latency to help with the critical application monitoring. 3. as data is replicated in multiple zones , it ensure the durability and availability of data.

Like

scalability, real-time processing of streamed data, availability with multiple zones replica.

Like

Allowing you to keep track of stream health and performance. Data streams maintain the time order of records, allowing you to analyze data in chronological order. Enabling parallel processing and ensuring high throughput.

Dislike

1. the charge is applied for every payload and data retrievals which can be costlier if not monitored properly. 2.Data routing is depended on the partition keys and if the key distribution is poor it can lead up to throttling issues

Dislike

steep learning curve, lack of useful documentation, time taken process, limited real life use case.

Dislike

Dealing with complex data formats and serialization can be challenging. Replicating data streams across regions for disaster recovery can can incur additional data transfer cost. Its costly for large scale.

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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) Reviews and Ratings

4.8

(20 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

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60%
4 Star
40%
3 Star
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1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Integration & Deployment

4.4

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.7

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  • CLOUD ENGINEER / CLOUD SPECIALIST
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    In Depth Review of AWS KDS

    5.0
    Nov 10, 2025
    Exceptionally great product for real time data streaming of the aws native services like EC2 , RDS, Lambda etc. The KDS allows you to share the data with the third party vendor as well using cloudwatch which helps to increase the observability of your environment
  • SOFTWARE ENGINEER
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    great service for processing streamed data with limited use case.

    4.0
    Sep 29, 2023
    it was very great product when we had to process heavy stream of data.
  • Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    KDS is Poweful Tool

    4.0
    Sep 19, 2023
    Over my 3 year experience as a developer KDS has been amazing for data processing. KDS has empowered us to build resilient, real time data solution and enhancing our ability to make data driven decision.
  • SOFTWARE ENGINEER
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Real-Time Power with a Learning Curve.

    5.0
    Sep 1, 2023
    Rich Developers Tools and SDKs : the availability of variety of SDKs and developers tools has made working with amazon kinesis data streams a smooth experience. Weather using python, java or other languages, i have had the flexibility to choose the tools that best suit my project. Efective monitoring and Alerting : AKDS monitoring and alerting capabilities have been invaluable in ensuring the health and performance of my data streams. Being able to setup custom alerts has allowed me to proactively address the issues. Unmatched Scalability : the scalabilty of AKDS is awe-inspiring. It feels like having an elastic data pipeline at disposal. Weather I am dealing with trickle or torrent of data, the service effortlessly accomodates my needs.
  • ENGINEERING MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Finance (non-banking)
    Review Source

    Efficient data ingestion and data streaming with minimal setup

    5.0
    Aug 24, 2023
    KDS is really good for real time stream processing and it's very easy to setup and keep it running. It integrates really well with all the other AWS services especially lambda , firehose and S3.
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