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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)
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Section 1: Introduction to Data Streaming and Amazon Kinesis
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Section 2: Deep Dive into Kinesis
10
Section 3: Integrations

Chapter 7: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

Kinesis Video Streams (KVS) is different than the other Kinesis services you've learned about in the previous chapters. Whereas those services primarily processed independent records in JSON or CSV, KVS is designed to handle time-encoded data. When an application needs to support real-time two-way communications or support the ingestion of video from devices, KVS is the best choice.

Amazon KVS is a managed, secure, durable, low-latency service that can scale to support video ingestion from millions of devices for processing, including analytics and machine learning.

Throughout this chapter, we will refer to the real-time functionality as KVS-WebRTC and the ingestion for further processing or storage as KVS. Together, these two capabilities enable you to build systems that support IoT devices and applications for connected homes, enterprise security, connected vehicles, and manufacturing. You want to use KVS when you need computer...