advanced~2h
Kinesis Data Streams
Real-time, ordered, replayable data streaming at massive scale — for when you need many consumers reading the same continuous flow of events, not just one-time delivery.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Explain how Kinesis differs fundamentally from SQS
- •Explain shards and how they determine a stream's throughput capacity
- •Explain why multiple independent consumers can all read the same data from a Kinesis stream
- •Recognize when a workload needs Kinesis versus SQS/SNS
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