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Version: 1.0

Kinesis

1. Kinesis Streams​

Goal: low latency streaming ingest at scale

  • Streams are divided in ordered Shards / Partitons
  • Data retention is 24 hours by default, can go up to 7 days
  • Ability to repocess / replay data
  • Multiple applications can consume the same stream
  • Real-time processing with scale of throughput
  • Once data is insereted in Kinesis, is can't be deleted (immutablity)

Kinesis Streams Shards​

  • One stream is made of one or multiple shards
  • Billing is per shard provisioned, can have as shards as we want
  • Batching available or per message calls
  • Number of shards can evolve over time (reshard, merge)
  • Record are not to be ordered globally they'll be ordered per shard

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Limits​

  • Producer
    • 1 MB/s or 1000 messages/s at write PER SHARD
    • ProvisionedThroughputException otherwise
  • Consumer
    • 2 MB/s at read PER SHARD accross all consumers
    • 5 API calls per second PER SHARD across all consumers
  • Consumer Enhanced Fan-Out
    • 2 MB/s at read PER SHARD, PER ENHANCED CONSUMER
    • No API calls need (push model)
  • Data Retention
    • 24 hours data retention by default
    • Can be extended to 7 days

2. Kinesis Data Firehose (KDF)​

  • Goal: load into S3, Redshift, ELK and Splunk

  • Fully Managed Service, no administration

  • Near Real Time 60 seconds latency mim for non full batches

  • Load data into Readshift / Amazon S3 / ElasticSearch / Splunk

  • Automtic scaling

  • Supports many data formats

  • Data Conversions from JSON to Parquet / ORC (Only for S3)

  • Data Transformationi through AWS Lambda (ex: CSV => JSON)

  • Support compression when target is S3 (GZIP, ZIP and SNAPPY)

  • Only GZIP is the data is further loaded into Redshift

  • Pay for the amount of data going through Firehose

  • Spark / KCL do not read from KDF

  • Write to KDF

    • SDK
    • Kinesis Producer Library (KPL)
    • Kinesis Agent
    • Kinesis Data Streams (KDS)
    • CloudWatch Logs & Events
    • IoT rules action

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  • Firehose Buffer Size
    • Firehose accumulates records in a buffer
    • The buffer is flushed based on time and size rules
    • Buffer Size (ex: 32MB): if size is reached, it's flushed
    • Buffer Time (ex: 2 minutes): if that time is reached, it's flushed
    • Firehose can automatically increase the buffer size to increase throughput
    • High throughput => Buffer Size will be hit : usually we flush based on size
    • Low throughput => Buffer Time be hit : usually we flush on time

3. Kinesis Data Streams vs Firehose​

  • Streams

    • Going to write custom code (producer / consumer)
    • Real time (~ 200 ms latency for class, ~ 70 ms latency for enhanced fan-out)
    • Must manage scaling (shard spliting / merging)
    • Data storage for 1 to 7 days , replay capability, mutli consumers
    • Use with Lambda to insert data in real-time to ElasticSearch (for example)

  • Firehose

    • Fully managed, send to S3, Splunk, Redshift, ElasticSearch
    • Serveless data transformations with Lambda
    • Near real time (lowest buffer time is 1 minute)
    • Autmated Scaling
    • No data storage

  • Install Kinesis Agent sudo yum install -y aws-kinesis-agent