Kinesis data streams are a streaming service within AWS designed to ingest large quantities of data and allow access to that data for consumers.

Kinesis is ideal for dashboards and large scale real time analytics needs.

Kinesis data firehose allows the long term persistent storage of kinesis data onto services like S3

This lesson ends by evaluating the differences between SQS and Kinesis, and identifying key factors in exam questions which suggest picking one vs the other.