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Streaming

Streaming data is data that is generated continuously by one or multiple data sources. These sources typically generate large volumes of data records simultaneously and in small sizes (order of bytes or kilobytes). Streaming data includes a wide variety of data, such as log files generated by customers using mobile applications or web applications, e-commerce purchases, in-game player activity, information from social networks, financial trading floors, geospatial services, and telemetry from connected devices or instrumentation in data centers.

Usually, streaming use cases require low latency processing—second or sub-second order—due to the near-real-time or real-time nature of the application. AWS offers a few options to deal ...