# Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/amazon-kinesis-data-streams
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/amazon-kinesis-data-streams.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/amazon-kinesis-data-streams/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://amazon.com
- **Slug:** amazon-kinesis-data-streams
- **Categories:** cloud-infrastructure, developer-tools

## Overview

- **Tagline:** Deepest integration with the AWS serverless ecosystem, allowing millisecond-latency triggers for AWS Lambda without managing infrastructure.
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless real-time data streaming service that enables developers to continuously capture and store terabytes of data per hour from hundreds of thousands of sources. It is part of the AWS streaming data platform, providing the durable transport layer for real-time analytics and data processing pipelines.
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - Real-time data ingestion
  - shard-based data streams
  - On-Demand data streams.
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Usage-based (Shard-hour and PUT Units) or On-Demand throughput.
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Data Engineers, DevOps, Enterprise IT, Fintech, AdTech.
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Apache Kafka / Confluent
  - Azure Event Hubs
  - Google Cloud Pub/Sub
  - Redpanda
Source: Brand's website (https://amazon.com) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.