From the course: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) Cert Prep (February 2025)

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Kinesis

Kinesis

- Sometimes your data is sitting in a database and you just need to go get it and do what you need to do with it. But at other times, it's not there. And this is becoming actually quite common these days, that your data's not in a database when you want to start working with it, but that your data is coming in when you want to start working with it. Real-time data, data streams, whatever you want to call it, but the data is flowing in and you want to work with that data. This is what the AWS service called Kinesis allows us to do. And of course, it fits into the analytics category in your services list. So with Kinesis, what we're doing is processing streaming data. This is the big thing to remember about it. There are different ways we can process streaming data with it, but it's all about processing streaming data. So the data's coming in in a stream. What does a stream do? It flows, right, so the data is flowing in,…

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