As a team member helped built the service, I would like to offer some of my personal understanding. I am not with Amazon now, and all my views are based on public information on the website.
Like all AWS offerings, Kinesis is a platform. It looks like kafka + storm, with fully integrated ecosystem with other AWS services. From the very beginning, the reliability, real-time processing, and transparent elasticity are built in. That's all I can say.
Like all AWS offerings, Kinesis is a platform. It looks like kafka + storm, with fully integrated ecosystem with other AWS services. From the very beginning, the reliability, real-time processing, and transparent elasticity are built in. That's all I can say.