AWS rolls out Amazon Kinesis for all Customers

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced global availability of Amazon Kinesis for all customers. 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.
 
“When we set out to build Amazon Kinesis, we wanted to eliminate the cost, effort, and expertise barriers that have prevented our customers from processing streaming data in real-time. We have gotten great feedback from our preview customers, and it is inspiring to see the innovative ways customers are using Amazon Kinesis, across applications as diverse as gaming, mobile, advertising, manufacturing, healthcare, e-commerce, and financial services,” said Terry Hanold, Vice-President, Cloud Commerce, AWS.
 
Amazon Kinesis is currently available in the US East (N. Virginia) region and will be rolled out to other AWS regions in the coming months.