Depending on the requirements, one can run the sink (we use Kafka Connect for bridging between Kafka and Kinesis) on-premise or as Docker container in ecs or on

Depending on the requirements, one can run the sink (we use Kafka Connect for bridging between Kafka and Kinesis) on-premise or as Docker container in ecs or on ec2. That gives you a lot of flexibility to optimize the parameters like costs, throughput, liveness, etc. Edit: fixed a comma.