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Are you an Amazon Web Services customer in search of a brand new method to process streaming data in real-time? Well, you’ll have heard of a brand new service from AWS called Kinesis. It was previously only available to a couple as a part of a limited preview, but Amazon is now letting it out of the gate.
Amazon Web Services announced today that Kinesis is now available to all its customers. It says the hot service may help businesses and developers create applications that “take action on real-time data, and site-tracking events.” While this functionality can already be built into apps, AWS notes that many developers ought to built it themselves and is oftentimes unreliable. With Kinesis, AWS promises a service that could do all of the heavy lifting without developers having to raise a finger.
“When we got down to build Amazon Kinesis, we would have liked to eliminate the price, effort, and expertise barriers which have prevented our customers from processing streaming data in real-time,” said Terry Hanold, Vp, Cloud Commerce, AWS. “We’ve gotten great feedback from our preview customers, and it’s inspiring to determine the innovative ways customers are using Amazon Kinesis, across applications as diverse as gaming, mobile, advertising, manufacturing, healthcare, e-commerce, and fiscal services.”
So, how does Amazon Kinesis work within the real world? a number of developers have had access to it for some time and shared their thoughts on what Kinesis has helped them achieve. The most effective example comes from Supercell, a mobile games developer that has a particularly real need for real-time data services.
“Our player base has scaled at an important pace. Using AWS means we will depend on AWS tools in managing our infrastructure to compare our growth,” said Sami Yliharju, Services Lead at Supercell. “We are using Amazon Kinesis for real-time delivery of game insight data sent by hundreds of our game engine servers. Amazon Kinesis enables our business-critical analytics and dashboard applications to reliably get the information streams they wish, without delays. Amazon Kinesis also offloads plenty of developer burden in building a true-time, streaming data ingestion platform, and enables Supercell to concentrate on delivering games that delight players worldwide.”
In a very different use case scenario, Bizo, a B2B digital marketing platform, utilized Kinesis to liberate their engineers’ time so that they could work on advancing the company’s technology rather than maintaining what was already there.
“Our business runs with a skilled but small engineering staff; tools that save us time and decrease operational complexity let us concentrate on innovation,” said Donnie Flood, Vice chairman of Engineering at Bizo. “An Amazon Kinesis-based pipeline allows us to exchange our existing, batch-oriented, data ingestion and aggregation mechanism, which forms the backbone of our data pipeline and reporting infrastructure. This reduces our operational burden and frees up our engineers’ time to spotlight building targeted advertising solutions for our clients while Amazon Kinesis does the heavy lifting of scaling elastically in line with our growing business.”
If you need to learn more about Kinesis, you are able to do so here.
As an advantage, here’s a video that explains in greater detail what Kinesis can do in your app or business:
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