Like many of the offerings from Amazon Web Services, Amazon Kinesis software is modeled after an existing Open Source system. In this case, Kinesis is modeled after Apache Kafka. Kinesis is known to be incredibly fast, reliable and easy to operate.

Is AWS Kinesis managed Kafka?

When it comes to data stream processing and analysis, AWS offers Amazon Kinesis or a managed version of Apache Kafka. Compare these two options to pick the best fit for your app. Data streams are a common pattern in modern software architectures.

Is AWS Kinesis similar to Kafka?

Like Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis is also a publish and subscribe messaging solution. However, it is offered as a managed service in the AWS cloud, and unlike Kafka cannot be run on-premises. The Kinesis Producer continuously pushes data to Kinesis Streams.