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Amazon Kinesis

Composite Score

8.4 /10

CX Score

8.7 /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

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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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Since last award

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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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.

+92 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

3% Neutral

95% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Saves Time
Security Protects
Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Self Service Cloud Services

Cloud SLA Management Governance

Application Release Automation

Cloud Integration

Cloud Migration

Performance Monitoring Management

Configuration Validation

Capacity Management

Cloud Analytics and Reporting

Orchestration and Workflow Management

Automatic Resource Scaling Elasticity

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

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

sameer k.

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

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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

Arun kumar T.

Role: Operations
Industry: Insurance
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

Real time processing of large data set

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?

It provides realtime and coming in as streaming information - which should be handled in realtime to play out specific activities. We use kinesis information stream to recieve this information - and process it utilizing lambda

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Kinesis information stream helps you set up and work with streaming information. It is not difficult to utilize and has great mix with rest of the AWS biological system like S3, SNS, SQS, and Lambda. It is exceptionally versatile and handles a great many messages each day in our AWS stack

What do you dislike most about this product?

I don't have any such points.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I believe that it would totally change your business in terms of cost and time saving.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Effective Service
Saves Time

Timo G.

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

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Submitted Mar 2023

Kinesis one of my favourite AWS Services

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?

Amazon Kinesis is not just streams, its Kinesis Analytics and Firehose too. But if we are just talking about Kinesis streams its a great way to work with Streaming data, you don't need to host it yourself plus AWS gives you amazing developer tools to develop applications that make use of it and the documentation is also amazing. On top of that Kinesis streams has amazing ability to scale.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The great documentation and developer tooling is amazing. I also just found it fun to work with.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I can't really think of anything, perhaps the pricing, but its still amazing what you get in terms of what you pay for.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you are already an AWS user and thinking of using it, then go for it.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

Amazon Kinesis Ratings

84 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 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

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.

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

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

Cloud Migration Migration of applications and workloads to cloud.

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

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.

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.

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

sameer k.

Great public cloud & One of the best cloud

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Arun kumar T.

Real time processing of large data set

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Timo G.

Kinesis one of my favourite AWS Services

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Self Service Cloud Services

Cloud SLA Management Governance

Application Release Automation

Cloud Integration

Cloud Migration

Performance Monitoring Management

Configuration Validation

Capacity Management

Cloud Analytics and Reporting

Orchestration and Workflow Management

Automatic Resource Scaling Elasticity

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

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