AWS Kinesis

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:34:38 +0545

Exploring AWS Kinesis for fun.

Realtime streaming; ingest, buffer, process Think kafka but fully managed, auto scaling.

Streams have shards Shards are made of records

Records have parition key, same partitionkey => Same shard (just like kafka)
Max record datablob is 1MB
Basically, MySQL => AWS RDS, Kafka => AWS Kinesis

Two ways to put data into the stream.
SDK, Kinesis Producer Library(KPL)
KPL = SDK + Somemore stuff (500 records per call vs SDK’s only one per call); only available in Java

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AWS Kinesis