5 ms·Kinesis is the AWS alternative to Kafka, minus some features.by Cieplak 11y agoKinesis is the AWS alternative to Kafka, minus some features.power 11y agoKinesis is for streaming computations. It's closer to Apache Storm (which typically uses Kafka) than Kafka.fizx 11y agoYou might be thinking of Simple Workflow Service, which is closer to Storm. Grandparent had it right.