Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Input—per 1M tokens

Output—per 1M tokens

Context—tokens

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About

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is ranked #7 of 22 in event streaming platforms on Inferse. It runs on API, Web. There is no free plan.

Compared on event streaming platforms

Free plan: Noaws.amazon.com
Deployment model: cloudaws.amazon.com
Maximum retention: 365 daysaws.amazon.com
Stream processing: Yesaws.amazon.com
Schema registry: Yesaws.amazon.com
Delivery guarantee: at-least-onceaws.amazon.com
Supported client languages: Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, PHP, Python, Ruby, C++, Kotlin, Rust, SAP ABAP, Swiftaws.amazon.com

Facts

What it does: Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless, real-time data streaming service for capturing, processing, and analyzing data streams at any scale.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Scale: It can continuously capture gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of sources.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Latency: Streaming data can be made available to multiple real-time analytics applications, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, or AWS Lambda within 70 milliseconds of collection.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Availability: Streaming data is synchronously replicated across three Availability Zones in an AWS Region.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Consumer fan-out: A Kinesis data stream can have up to 20 consumers, each with dedicated read throughput.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Retention: Kinesis Data Streams supports retention for up to 365 days.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Security: The service supports server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service keys and private access through Amazon VPC.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Integrations: AWS lists integrations with Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, AWS Database Migration Service, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Lambda, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Data delivery: Kinesis Data Streams can deliver records directly to Amazon S3 Tables as Apache Iceberg tables and to general-purpose Amazon S3 buckets in source format.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Use cases: AWS describes use cases including log and event streaming, real-time analytics, event-driven applications, and real-time AI and machine-learning applications.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Security model: AWS states that security is a shared responsibility and provides guidance for data protection, IAM access control, compliance validation, resilience, and infrastructure security.docs.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Free tier: Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is not currently available in the AWS Free Tier.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Getting started: Users can create a stream through the AWS Management Console or CreateStream API, configure producers, and build applications to read and process records.aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026