===== Kinesis =====



=== Kinesis Streams  ===

Kinesis Firehose is a  Amazon’s **data-conduit product**

Kinesis **Streams** is capable of capturing **large amounts of data (terabytes per hour)** from data producers, 
and **streaming it into custom applications for data processing** and analysis. 

Streaming data is **replicated by Kinesis across three separate availability zones** within AWS to ensure reliability and availability of your data.

By default, data is available in a stream for 24 hours, but can be made available for up to 168 hours (7 days) for an additional charge.

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=== Kinesis Firehouse ===

Kinesis Firehose is Amazon’s **data-ingestion product**.

An **ExtractTransformLoad (ETL)** tool, 
to move much data around.

It is used to **capture and load streaming data into other Amazon services** such as S3 and Redshift. 

From there, you can load the streams into data processing and analysis tools like Elastic Map Reduce, and Amazon Elasticsearch Service.


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