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PROS

Amazon Kinesis provides robust scalability and high data throughput, handling gigabytes within milliseconds.
Integration with Lambda functions enables real-time data processing.
Amazon Kinesis supports real-time data streaming and offers replay features, beneficial for business troubleshooting.
Amazon Kinesis delivers flawless technical support and comprehensive management features.
Amazon Kinesis is accessible to novice developers and offers significant flexibility for business applications.

CONS

Amazon Kinesis could improve its pricing to be more competitive, especially for large volumes.
There are some kind of hard limits on Amazon Kinesis, and if users hit those, they will encounter a throughput exceed error.
Amazon Kinesis lacks first in, first out queuing.
For video streams, there is sometimes a delay when data is being transferred to other services, which could be improved.
Amazon Kinesis involved a more complex setup and configuration than Azure Event Hub.
 

Amazon Kinesis Pros review quotes

CD
AWS Cloud Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Apr 28, 2025
Amazon Kinesis is easy to get started with, provides good documentation, and has a multilang daemon interface that makes it programming-language agnostic.
reviewer1480695 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Software Development at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Oct 9, 2025
The integration between Amazon Kinesis and Lambda helps us significantly.
Prabin Silwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineering Consultant at ASSURANCE IQ, INC.
Jun 24, 2024
The product's initial setup phase is not difficult because we are using the tool on the cloud.
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Rajni Kumar Jha - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Apr 3, 2024
The most valuable feature of Amazon Kinesis is real-time data streaming.
Sushil Pandey - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at Tiger Analytics
Sep 5, 2024
There is no problem with the tool's stability.
MS
Director AWS at NeuraFlash India Pvt Ltd
Nov 12, 2024
The Kinesis VideoStream and DataStream are the most important features.
CG
AWS / Big Data Engineer at Waste Management, Inc.
Aug 1, 2023
I find almost all features valuable, especially the timing and fast pace movement.
Wojciech Doganowski - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect & PMO at AS TV Play Baltics/TV3 Group
Apr 23, 2024
The integration capabilities of the product are good.
Venkata Maniteja Alapati - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director of Product Management at Sprinklr
Apr 4, 2024
I like the ease of use and how we can quickly get the configurations done, making it pretty straightforward and stable.
Ankeet Chauhan - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Bipolar Factory
Apr 2, 2024
The solution's technical support is flawless.
 

Amazon Kinesis Cons review quotes

CD
AWS Cloud Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Apr 28, 2025
Amazon Kinesis could improve its pricing to be more competitive, especially for large volumes.
reviewer1480695 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Software Development at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Oct 9, 2025
We are contemplating moving away from Amazon Kinesis primarily because of the cost.
Prabin Silwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineering Consultant at ASSURANCE IQ, INC.
Jun 24, 2024
The tool should focus on having an alert system rather than having to use a third-party solution.
Learn what your peers think about Amazon Kinesis. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: May 2026.
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Rajni Kumar Jha - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Apr 3, 2024
The solution has a two-minute maximum time delay for live streaming, which could be reduced.
Sushil Pandey - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at Tiger Analytics
Sep 5, 2024
There are some kind of hard limits on Amazon Kinesis, and if you hit that, then you will get the throughput exceed error.
MS
Director AWS at NeuraFlash India Pvt Ltd
Nov 12, 2024
There could be valid data in Kinesis that is not being processed, which affects stability. Although it rarely happens, this issue has been observed in many deployments, making it not completely stable.
CG
AWS / Big Data Engineer at Waste Management, Inc.
Aug 1, 2023
The price is not much cheaper. So, there is room for improvement in the pricing.
Wojciech Doganowski - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect & PMO at AS TV Play Baltics/TV3 Group
Apr 23, 2024
AI processing or cleaning up data would be nice since I don't think it is a feature in Amazon Kinesis right now.
Venkata Maniteja Alapati - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director of Product Management at Sprinklr
Apr 4, 2024
For me, especially with video streams, there's sometimes a kind of delay when the data has to be pumped to other services. This delay could be improved in Kinesis, or especially the Kinesis Video Streams, which is being used for different use cases for Amazon Connect. With that improvement, a lot of other use cases of Amazon Connect integrating with third-party analytic tools would be easier.
Ankeet Chauhan - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Bipolar Factory
Apr 2, 2024
There are certain shortcomings in the machine learning capacity offered by the product, making it an area where improvements are required.