Kinesis

Question 1

What is Kinesis?

Answer 1

Platform sending streaming data to other services

Question 2

What is streaming data?

Answer 2

data generated continuously by thousands of data sources typically sned in the data records simultaneously and in small sizes

Question 3

Examples of streaming data

Answer 3

Purchases form online stores

Stock Prices

Game data as gamer plays

Social network data

Geospatial data (uber)

ioT sensor data

Question 4

How long does Kinesis store data?

Answer 4

Default 24hrs

But can be up to 7 days

Question 5

Describe Kinesis Streams

Answer 5

Producer -> stream(shards) -> consumer -> AWS Service

Consumer is a fleet of SC2 instances that analyze data

Question 6

Shard transaction per second erads

Answer 6

5 transactions per sec reads

Question 7

Kinesis Firehouse

Answer 7

Producer -> firehouse -> S3 or ElasticSearch -> Redshift (optional)

no auto retention window

Question 8

Kinesis Analytics

Answer 8

Producer -> Firehouse or Streams -> S3, Redshift, ElasticSearch Cluster

There can be SQL queries on data in firehouse or streams

Question 9

Is kinesis poll or push based

Answer 9

Poll

Question 10

How are you charged for Kinesis?

Answer 10

Hourly rate for each shard.

Question 11

Max data 1 shard can process per second

Answer 11

1 MiB/sec
or
1000 records per sec for writes

Question 12

Shard limit

Answer 12

500 for (us east, us west, and eu) others are 200