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Category: Amazon Kinesis

Under the Hood of Server-Side Encryption for Amazon Kinesis Streams

Customers are using Amazon Kinesis Streams to ingest, process, and deliver data in real time from millions of devices or applications. Use cases for Kinesis Streams vary, but a few common ones include IoT data ingestion and analytics, log processing, clickstream analytics, and enterprise data bus architectures. Within milliseconds of data arrival, applications (KCL, Apache […]

Visualize and Monitor Amazon EC2 Events with Amazon CloudWatch Events and Amazon Kinesis Firehose

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Monitoring your AWS environment is important for security, performance, and cost control purposes. For example, by monitoring […]

Build a Serverless Architecture to Analyze Amazon CloudFront Access Logs Using AWS Lambda, Amazon Athena, and Amazon Kinesis Analytics

Nowadays, it’s common for a web server to be fronted by a global content delivery service, like Amazon CloudFront. This type of front end accelerates delivery of websites, APIs, media content, and other web assets to provide a better experience to users across the globe. The insights gained by analysis of Amazon CloudFront access logs […]

Build a Visualization and Monitoring Dashboard for IoT Data with Amazon Kinesis Analytics and Amazon QuickSight

April 2024: The solution presented in this post is deprecated. Customers across the world are increasingly building innovative Internet of Things (IoT) workloads on AWS. With AWS, they can handle the constant stream of data coming from millions of new, internet-connected devices. This data can be a valuable source of information if it can be […]

Test Your Streaming Data Solution with the New Amazon Kinesis Data Generator

October 2024: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. When building a streaming data solution, most customers want to test it with data that is similar to their production data. Creating this data and streaming it to your solution can often be the most tedious task in testing the solution. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams […]

Build a Real-time Stream Processing Pipeline with Apache Flink on AWS

NOTE: As of November 2018, you can run Apache Flink programs with Amazon Kinesis Analytics for Java Applications in a fully managed environment. You can find further details in a new blog post on the AWS Big Data Blog and in this Github repository. ————————– September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. […]

Analyzing VPC Flow Logs using Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight

February 2, 2022: Blog updated by Chaitanya Shah. February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Organizations of different size who migrate their applications in cloud or applications born in cloud makes use of various cloud services to innovate and […]

Implement Serverless Log Analytics Using Amazon Kinesis Analytics

Applications log a large amount of data that—when analyzed in real time—provides significant insight into your applications. Real-time log analysis can be used to ensure security compliance, troubleshoot operation events, identify application usage patterns, and much more. Ingesting and analyzing this data in real time can be accomplished by using a variety of open source […]

Derive Insights from IoT in Minutes using AWS IoT, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Ben Snively is a Solutions Architect with AWS Speed and agility are essential with today’s analytics tools. The quicker you can get from idea to first results, the more you can experiment […]