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Amazon Kinesis

Composite Score

8.1 /10

CX Score

8.4 /10

35 Reviews Write a Review

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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2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024

3 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

2024

2 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

2023

Amazon Kinesis Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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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.

85 Likeliness to Recommend

2
Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1
Since last award

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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.

+91 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?

3% Negative

4% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Enables Productivity
Unique Features
Saves Time
Appreciates Incumbent Status

Feature Ratings

Average 85

Cloud SLA Management Governance

Performance Monitoring Management

Cloud Integration

Self Service Cloud Services

Application Release Automation

Cloud Migration

Capacity Management

Cloud Analytics and Reporting

Configuration Validation

Orchestration and Workflow Management

Automatic Resource Scaling Elasticity

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 85

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Amazon Kinesis Reviews

Praveen B.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Easy integration with Third party tools

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?

Amazon Kinesis is a manages service by Amazon and the customer support is fantastice.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

This is easy to integrate with third party tools used for visualization, dashboarding and pattern mapping.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Need more customization capabilities

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend it for easy integration, easy implementation and fantastic customer support.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Srikar M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2023

Great Product

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Amazon Kinesis from other similar products?

Enhanced Security and Compliance: More advanced security features, encryption options, and compliance certifications for handling sensitive data.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Advanced Data Transformation: Additional features for data transformation and enrichment in the stream, making it easier to process and analyze data as it flows.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Lack of Built-in Analytics: While Amazon Kinesis offers streaming capabilities, users looking for advanced built-in analytics and machine learning features may need to integrate with other AWS services or third-party tools.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Easier Scaling: Simplified auto-scaling capabilities to handle varying workloads and spikes in data ingestion more efficiently.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Amazon Kinesis Ratings

85 Likeliness to Recommend

2 Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 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

Cloud SLA Management Governance Collects, aggregates and manages data to ensure adherence to committed service levels.

Performance Monitoring Management Provide visibility into & control over the performance of servers/VMs, network, storage

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

Self Service Cloud Services Self-service provisioning (infrastructure, middleware, application) automation, including a service catalog and policy-based life-cycle management capabilities

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

Cloud Migration Migration of applications and workloads to cloud.

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

Configuration Validation Reviews resources within a cloud footprint to confirm required configurations and standards.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

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.

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.

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

Praveen B.

Easy integration with Third party tools

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Srikar M.

Great Product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Arun kumar T.

Real time processing of large data set

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Cloud SLA Management Governance

Performance Monitoring Management

Cloud Integration

Self Service Cloud Services

Application Release Automation

Cloud Migration

Capacity Management

Cloud Analytics and Reporting

Configuration Validation

Orchestration and Workflow Management

Automatic Resource Scaling Elasticity

Vendor Capability Ratings

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization