name: Amazon Kinesis
description: Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time streaming data so you can get timely
  insights and react quickly to new information. Amazon Kinesis offers key capabilities to cost-effectively process streaming
  data at any scale, along with the flexibility to choose the tools that best suit the requirements of your application.
image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-search/amazon-web-services/main/apis/kinesis.yml
created: 2024-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.18'
tags:
- Analytics
- Big Data
- Data Processing
- Real-Time
- Streaming
apis:
- name: Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
  description: Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a massively scalable and durable real-time data streaming service. It can continuously
    capture gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of sources such as website clickstreams, database event
    streams, financial transactions, social media feeds, IT logs, and location-tracking events.
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-streams/
  baseURL: https://kinesis.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Data Ingestion
  - Real-Time
  - Streams
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/APIReference/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-kinesis-data-streams-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/amazon-kinesis-streams-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-record-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/amazon-kinesis-context.jsonld
  - type: OpenAPI (Third-Party)
    url: https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/amazonaws.com/kinesis/2013-12-02/openapi.yaml
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-streams/pricing/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-streams/getting-started/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/introduction.html
  - type: Features
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-streams/features/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-streams/faqs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/APIReference/
  - type: Quotas
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/service-sizes-and-limits.html
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-stream-schema.json
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/data-streams-general.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/data-streams-account.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/data-streams-consumers.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/data-streams-encryption.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/data-streams-monitoring.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/data-streams-policies.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/data-streams-records.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/data-streams-shards.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/data-streams-streams.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/amazon-kinesis-streams.yaml
- name: Amazon Data Firehose
  description: Amazon Data Firehose (formerly Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose) is the easiest way to reliably load streaming
    data into data lakes, data stores, and analytics services. It can capture, transform, and deliver streaming data to destinations
    like Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Snowflake, Splunk, and more.
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-firehose/
  baseURL: https://firehose.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Data Loading
  - ETL
  - Streaming
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/firehose/latest/APIReference/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/amazonaws.com/firehose/2015-08-04/openapi.yaml
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-firehose/pricing/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-firehose/getting-started/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/firehose/latest/dev/what-is-this-service.html
  - type: Features
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-firehose/features/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/firehose/faqs/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-stream-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-record-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/amazon-kinesis-context.jsonld
- name: Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
  description: Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink (formerly Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics) is a fully managed service
    for processing and analyzing streaming data in real time using Apache Flink. You can build applications using Java, Python,
    Scala, or SQL to transform and analyze streaming data with sub-second latencies.
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/managed-service-apache-flink/
  baseURL: https://kinesisanalytics.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Analytics
  - Apache Flink
  - SQL
  - Stream Processing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/managed-flink/latest/apiv2/Welcome.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/amazonaws.com/kinesisanalyticsv2/2018-05-23/openapi.yaml
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/managed-service-apache-flink/pricing/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/managed-flink/latest/java/getting-started.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/managed-flink/latest/java/what-is.html
  - type: Features
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/managed-service-apache-flink/features/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/managed-service-apache-flink/faqs/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-stream-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-record-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/amazon-kinesis-context.jsonld
- name: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
  description: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams makes it easy to securely stream video from connected devices to AWS for analytics,
    machine learning, playback, and other processing. It automatically provisions and elastically scales infrastructure needed
    to ingest streaming video data from millions of devices.
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/
  baseURL: https://kinesisvideo.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - IoT
  - Machine Learning
  - Streaming
  - Video
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesisvideostreams/latest/dg/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/amazonaws.com/kinesisvideo/2017-09-30/openapi.yaml
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/pricing/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/getting-started/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesisvideostreams/latest/dg/API_Reference.html
  - type: Features
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/features/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/faqs/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-stream-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-record-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/amazon-kinesis-context.jsonld
- name: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Media
  description: The Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Media API provides operations for reading and writing media data to and from
    a Kinesis video stream, enabling real-time media ingestion and consumption.
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesisvideostreams/latest/dg/API_Operations_Amazon_Kinesis_Video_Streams_Media.html
  baseURL: https://kinesisvideo.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Media
  - Real-Time
  - Streaming
  - Video
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesisvideostreams/latest/dg/API_Operations_Amazon_Kinesis_Video_Streams_Media.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/amazonaws.com/kinesis-video-media/2017-09-30/openapi.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-stream-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-record-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/amazon-kinesis-context.jsonld
- name: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Archived Media
  description: The Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Archived Media API provides operations for accessing archived video data from
    Kinesis video streams, including retrieving clips, HLS and DASH streaming session URLs, images, and fragment lists.
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesisvideostreams/latest/dg/API_Operations_Amazon_Kinesis_Video_Streams_Archived_Media.html
  baseURL: https://kinesisvideo.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Archived Media
  - DASH
  - HLS
  - Playback
  - Video
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesisvideostreams/latest/dg/API_Operations_Amazon_Kinesis_Video_Streams_Archived_Media.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/amazonaws.com/kinesis-video-archived-media/2017-09-30/openapi.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-stream-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-record-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/amazon-kinesis-context.jsonld
- name: Amazon Kinesis Video Signaling Channels
  description: The Amazon Kinesis Video Signaling Channels API facilitates peer-to-peer WebRTC communication by enabling applications
    to securely discover each other and exchange connection offers and answers through signaling channels for real-time media
    streaming.
  image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesisvideostreams-webrtc-dg/latest/devguide/what-is-kvswebrtc.html
  baseURL: https://kinesisvideo.amazonaws.com
  tags:
  - Real-Time
  - Signaling
  - Video
  - WebRTC
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesisvideostreams-webrtc-dg/latest/devguide/what-is-kvswebrtc.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/amazonaws.com/kinesis-video-signaling/2019-12-04/openapi.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-stream-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amazon-kinesis-record-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/amazon-kinesis-context.jsonld
common:
- type: Features
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/features/
- type: FAQ
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-streams/faqs/
- type: Blog
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/category/analytics/amazon-kinesis/
- type: Customers
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/customers/
- type: Resources
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/resources/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/
- type: SDK & Tools
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/tools/
- type: Support
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/
- type: Console
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/
- type: Firehose Blog
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/category/analytics/amazon-kinesis/kinesis-data-firehose/
- type: Video Streams FAQs
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/faqs/
- type: Firehose FAQs
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/firehose/faqs/
- type: Managed Flink FAQs
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/managed-service-apache-flink/faqs/
- type: Video Streams Resources
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/video-streams/resources/
- type: Portal
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-streams/pricing/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/streams/latest/dev/tutorial-stock-data-kplkcl-iam.html
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/aws
- type: StackOverflow
  url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/amazon-kinesis
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Real-Time Analytics
    description: Analyze streaming data for operational metrics and business intelligence.
  - name: Event-Driven Architectures
    description: Build event-driven microservices that react to real-time data streams.
  - name: Machine Learning
    description: Feed real-time data into ML models for online training and inference.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: AWS Lambda
    description: Trigger Lambda functions to process records from Kinesis streams.
  - name: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
    description: Use Kinesis streams as source for Firehose delivery.
  - name: Amazon DynamoDB
    description: Store processed streaming records in DynamoDB.
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/amazon-kinesis-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/amazon-kinesis-vocabulary.yaml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace
integrations:
- name: Agent Mode
- name: Sign in
- name: Become a Channel Partner
- name: Resources
- name: Sell in AWS Marketplace
- name: Why AWS Marketplace?
- name: Get started in AWS Marketplace
- name: Manage Your Account
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  url: http://apievangelist.com
  email: kin@apievangelist.com