> ...see here Kinesis instead of just doing Kafka and many other products Kinesis was a solution to their in-house woes with metering and billing which absolut

> ...see here Kinesis instead of just doing Kafka and many other products Kinesis was a solution to their in-house woes with metering and billing which absolutely drowned in so much data from internal services with myriad metering and billing items and rules that they had to do something about it themselves: https://gigaom.com/2014/03/20/why-amazon-built-its-data-stream-processing-engine-kinesis/ https://gigaom.com/2014/03/20/why-amazon-built-its-data-stre... BTW, Kinesis Data Firehose is a pretty good product.