Amazon wants to analyze real-time data with Kinesis

December 17, 2013

Amazon Web Services hopes enterprises are willing to rely on the company when getting large amounts of data ready for analysis with its latest service, Kinesis.Kinesis was first made available as a limited preview last month, but is now available as a public beta. It is a managed service designed to handle real-time streams of data. It can collect and process large amounts of data, from any number of sources, including server logs and social media feeds, according to Amazon.The pitch is the same as for many of Amazon’s other hosted services. In this case, enterprises don’t have to worry about provisioning, deploying and maintaining hardware and software to capture and store real-time data. Kinesis also replicates information across three facilities in a region, to improve availability and data durability.Amazon sees a number of use cases for Kinesis; the service can collect data generated by an application and make it available for identification of slow queries, page views or resource utilization. Kinesis can also collect and analyze financial information in real-time or help game developers see how the players are interacting with their game and each other.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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