What's the Difference Between Amazon Data Firehose and Amazon Kinesis?
Compare Amazon Data Firehose and Amazon Kinesis side by side — features, pricing, and ideal use cases to help you choose the right product.
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Amazon Data Firehose
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Amazon Kinesis
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Category
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Analytics, Streaming |
Analytics, Streaming ingestion |
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Description
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Reliably load real-time streaming data into data lakes, warehouses, and analytics services. |
Collect, process, and analyze real-time streaming data to get timely insights and react quickly. |
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Pricing model
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Pay per GB of data ingested |
Pay per shard hour + PUT payload units |
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Free tier
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No |
Yes |
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Expert take
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“Firehose is the zero-admin way to load streaming data into S3, Redshift, or OpenSearch. It handles batching, compression, and encryption without writing consumer code.” |
“Kinesis Data Streams is the AWS-native option for real-time ingestion at scale. Each shard gives you 1 MB/s in and 2 MB/s out. For simpler ETL into S3/Redshift without managing consumers, Data Firehose is zero-administration and auto-scales.” |
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When to use Amazon Data Firehose or Amazon Kinesis
Use Amazon Data Firehose when:
- Log delivery
- Streaming ETL
- Real-time analytics
- IoT data delivery
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Use Amazon Kinesis when:
- Real-time analytics
- Log & event data
- IoT data streams
- Video streams
- Clickstream analysis
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