Cloud Computing: Why Amazon’s Kinesis tool is a big deal for working with big data

Grazed from CITEWorld. Author: Andy Patrizio.

Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing subsidiary of the Internet retail giant, recently announced Amazon Kinesis, a fully managed service for real time processing of high volume data streaming in to Amazon’s Web-based repositories. The intro was made at the Re:Invent conference held in Las Vegas. Amazon Kinesis allows a customer to store and process terabytes of data an hour from hundreds of thousands of sources as the data is coming in.

This allows developers to create applications that act on real-time data, such as Web site traffic, marketing and financial transactions, social media feeds, or logs. Kinesis is capable of accepting any amount of data, from any number of sources, scaling up and down as needed. The client library handles load balancing, coordination, and error handling, doing the background work, so the developer only needs to focus on processing the data as it becomes available…

Written entirely in Java, all a developer has to do is add the Amazon Kinesis Client Library to a Java application and you will be notified when new data is available for processing. It also integrates with third-party products, so developers can use their preferred method of data processing apps…

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