Amazon Kinesis Data Streams vs. RudderStack

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a massively scalable, durable, and low-cost streaming data service. Kinesis Data Streams can continuously capture gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of sources, such as website clickstreams, database event streams, financial transactions, social media feeds, IT logs, and location-tracking events. The collected data is available in milliseconds to allow real-time analytics use cases, such as real-time dashboards, real-time anomaly detection, dynamic pricing.

RudderStack’s agentic CDP enables you to collect, unify, and activate customer data from an integrated platform that wraps around your data warehouse as the system of record. Our infrastructure is battle tested with proven reliability at peak loads up to 1M events/second and 99.95% uptime. Proactive governance tools enable you to enforce data quality and compliance in pipeline, so downstream systems always get activation ready data. And our AI capabilities transform both how you work with customer data and what you can do with it.