Amazon Kinesis Now Available to All Customers

Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company AMZN, today announced that Amazon Kinesis, a fully managed service for real-time processing of high volume, streaming data, is now broadly available for use. Using Amazon Kinesis, a customer can store and process terabytes of data an hour from hundreds of thousands of sources, making it easy to write applications that take action on real-time data such as web site click-streams, marketing and financial transactions, social media feeds, logs and metering data, and location-tracking events. Amazon Kinesis-enabled applications can power real-time dashboards, generate alerts, drive real-time business decisions such as changing pricing and advertising strategies, or send data to other big data services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon See full press release