Kinesis_Firehose.md

Kinesis Firehose

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• Exam Tips:

  • Fully managed service to load data for data lakes, data stores, and analytics services.
  • Automatic scaling:
    • Fully serverless
    • Resilient
  • Near realtime delivery (~60 seconds)
    • Kinesis streams are realtime (~200 ms)
  • Supports transformation of data on the fly (lambda)
  • Billing - volume through firehose.
  • Supported destinations:
    • S3
    • Redshift
    • Elasticsearch
    • Splunk
  • Use Firehose when you need to take the data out of Kinesis.