Kinesis is basically Kafka as a service. IIUC, Kinesis Firehose is just a way to ingest data into S3 buckets/Redshift and Firehose would give you the goodies li

Kinesis is basically Kafka as a service. IIUC, Kinesis Firehose is just a way to ingest data into S3 buckets/Redshift and Firehose would give you the goodies like monitoring/fault tolerance etc.