Category: Amazon Kinesis

We’re happy to announce a new feature in the Amazon Data Firehose integration with Amazon MSK. You can now specify the Firehose stream to either read from the earliest position on the Kafka topic or from a custom timestamp to begin reading from your MSK topic. In this post of this series, we focus on managed data delivery from Kafka to your data lake.

In this post, we walk through two solutions that demonstrate how to stream data from your Amazon MSK provisioned cluster to Iceberg-based data lakes in Amazon S3 using Amazon Data Firehose.

In this post, we explore how PackScan uses Amazon cloud-based services to drive real-time visibility, improve logistics efficiency, and support the seamless movement of packages across Amazon’s Middle Mile network.

Airties is a wireless networking company that provides AI-driven solutions for enhancing home connectivity. This post explores the strategies the Airties team employed during their migration from Apache Kafka to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, the challenges they overcame, and how they achieved a more efficient, scalable, and maintenance-free streaming infrastructure.

In this post, we show you how to create Iceberg tables in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio and stream data to these tables using Firehose. With this integration, data engineers, analysts, and data scientists can seamlessly collaborate and build end-to-end analytics and ML workflows using SageMaker Unified Studio, removing traditional silos and accelerating the journey from data ingestion to production ML models.

Amazon Kinesis Client Library (KCL) 1.x and Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) 0.x will reach end-of-support on January 30, 2026. Accordingly, these versions will enter maintenance mode on April 17, 2025. During maintenance mode, AWS will provide updates only for critical bug fixes and security issues. Major versions in maintenance mode will not receive updates for new features or feature enhancements.

In this post, we introduce StarTree as a managed solution on AWS for teams seeking the advantages of Pinot. We highlight the key distinctions between open-source Pinot and StarTree, and provide valuable insights for organizations considering a more streamlined approach to their real-time analytics infrastructure.

In this post, we explore how AWS customers can extend Amazon DataZone to support streaming data such as Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) topics. Developers and DevOps managers can use Amazon MSK, a popular streaming data service, to run Kafka applications and Kafka Connect connectors on AWS without becoming experts in operating it.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. We were positioned in the Challengers Quadrant in 2023. This recognition, we feel, reflects our ongoing commitment to innovation and excellence in data integration, demonstrating our continued progress in providing comprehensive data management solutions.

In this post, we demonstrate how to build a scalable AWS WAF log analysis solution using Firehose and Apache Iceberg. Firehose simplifies the entire process—from log ingestion to storage—by allowing you to configure a delivery stream that delivers AWS WAF logs directly to Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3. The solution requires no infrastructure setup and you pay only for the data you process.