Why not push to Kinesis directly in a background worker? I understand printing log is simple but you still have to push that log to cloudwatch... it's still be

Why not push to Kinesis directly in a background worker? I understand printing log is simple but you still have to push that log to cloudwatch... it's still being done on the same system. So, you end up paying that cost either way. You can use MongoDB atlas with multi-region replication for low latency queries instead of DynamoDB.