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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

- [Instructor] Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a service that scales elastically for near realtime processing of streaming data. The service durably stores data in large streams for near realtime processing with a propagation delay as low as 200 milliseconds. In this lesson, we'll explain how to configure a data stream and read and write data into it. Then we'll do a lab where we create a data stream. Amazon Kinesis data streams is designed to ingest streaming data records from multiple sources. The data is a sequence of records such as log data, social media, telemetry data from IOT devices, or clickstream data. It is designed to enable realtime processing of streaming data by downstream applications. Often these data stream applications are custom applications running on EC2, however, several AWS services integrate directly with Kinesis Data Streams. One is Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, which uses Apache Flink to process and perform analytics on the streaming data before…

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