Amazon Kinesis Reviews in June 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

"Great inbuilt data pipeline for log streaming"

What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams? Kinesis support many integrations. In our case, we wanted to send ecs service data to coralogix. By default, AWS doesn't support direct integration with coralogix. Out of box Kinesis supports coralogix integration. So we created the pipeline as follow Forwarded the ecs cluster logs to cloudwatch using clodwatch agent. Integrated the cloudwatch as ingress for Kinesis Data Streams and configured coralogix as destination. What do you ...

"Great for live and high load data"

What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams? Fast, scalability, resilience, monitoring, custom dashboards, documentation, shardings (based on partition key), etc. What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams? No proper mechanism to go deep down and understand its architecture deeply to tweak some minute changes in our approach which can minimize errors drastically. Sometimes knowledge gap/confusion is being felt and required considerable time and effort to be put into ...

"Kinesis for multiple producer and multiple consumer model"

What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams? With the availability of the kinesis and the controls provided by kinesis, like data size and big data size, we can increase the shards. The retention period is a good feature for the fail safe. What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams? Unavailability of complete python KCL SDK. I found the implementation of KCL SDK for python that was running java code under the hood. It was difficult to find the reason for the ...

"Very good integration service for receiving critical events in realtime paired with AWS IoT"

What do you like best about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams? We had to receive events in realtime from remote Android devices without burdening our servers with repeated polls. We solved it by using AWS IoT to publish events from the android device and integrated IoT streams with Kinesis to receive events in our service as soon as the event is published from Android application. What do you dislike about Amazon Kinesis Data Streams? There are no apparent issues with Kinesis data streams in ...