What is Amazon Kinesis?

Amazon Kinesis is a platform for streaming data on AWS, making it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time streaming data. It consists of Kinesis Data Streams for building custom applications, Kinesis Data Firehose for loading streaming data into data stores, Kinesis Data Analytics for analyzing streaming data with SQL or Apache Flink, and Kinesis Video Streams for streaming video. Kinesis enables real-time processing of large amounts of data from sources like website clickstreams, IoT telemetry data, application logs, and social media feeds. It provides durability, elasticity, and low latency for real-time analytics and monitoring.