>> I mean apart from the fact that Kinesis is a hosted service and Kafka would most likely require you setting up a cluster. AFAIK that's the only we use Kines

>> I mean apart from the fact that Kinesis is a hosted service and Kafka would most likely require you setting up a cluster. AFAIK that's the only we use Kinesis over something like Kafka or Spark (much to the chagrin of of our data team). We are planning on moving to Kafka I believe but in the meantime while the Data folks sort all that out we are using Kinesis.