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Scalable Data Streaming with Amazon Kinesis

By : Tarik Makota, Brian Maguire, Danny Gagne, Rajeev Chakrabarti
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Scalable Data Streaming with Amazon Kinesis

By: Tarik Makota, Brian Maguire, Danny Gagne, Rajeev Chakrabarti

Overview of this book

Amazon Kinesis is a collection of secure, serverless, durable, and highly available purpose-built data streaming services. This data streaming service provides APIs and client SDKs that enable you to produce and consume data at scale. Scalable Data Streaming with Amazon Kinesis begins with a quick overview of the core concepts of data streams, along with the essentials of the AWS Kinesis landscape. You'll then explore the requirements of the use case shown through the book to help you get started and cover the key pain points encountered in the data stream life cycle. As you advance, you'll get to grips with the architectural components of Kinesis, understand how they are configured to build data pipelines, and delve into the applications that connect to them for consumption and processing. You'll also build a Kinesis data pipeline from scratch and learn how to implement and apply practical solutions. Moving on, you'll learn how to configure Kinesis on a cloud platform. Finally, you’ll learn how other AWS services can be integrated into Kinesis. These services include Redshift, Dynamo Database, AWS S3, Elastic Search, and third-party applications such as Splunk. By the end of this AWS book, you’ll be able to build and deploy your own Kinesis data pipelines with Kinesis Data Streams (KDS), Kinesis Data Firehose (KFH), Kinesis Video Streams (KVS), and Kinesis Data Analytics (KDA).
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Data Streaming and Amazon Kinesis
5
Section 2: Deep Dive into Kinesis
10
Section 3: Integrations

Understanding delivery stream destinations

Delivery stream destinations are where KDF has the ability to land or send the ingested data. This is how KDF packages stream storage, data processing, and delivery into one neat tool that requires no code. KDF supports a number of destinations, and the KDF service has been adding additional destinations over time. Now, let's take a detailed look at the supported destinations.

Amazon S3

The first—and most popular—destination is Amazon S3. S3 is a serverless object-storage service that is highly scalable, highly durable, and highly available, and provides industry-leading performance and security features. It is designed for 99.999999999% (or 11 9s) of durability and provides storage for almost any amount of data. It provides the ideal storage at an affordable price point for use cases such as a data lake, and hence is an ideal destination for KDF. The most popular use case for using KDF is to populate a data lake that...