It sounds exciting but I don't fully get what this is good for. It sounds like a stream (of "records") on this would be the equivalent of a queue and messages i

It sounds exciting but I don't fully get what this is good for. It sounds like a stream (of "records") on this would be the equivalent of a queue and messages in Amazon SQS? only Kinesis is lower latency and billing is both capacity-based and quantity-based rather than only quantity-based in SQS?