Amazon Kinesis Alternatives (January 2026)

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully managed, serverless data streaming service that stores and ingests various streaming data in real time at any scale.

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics helps you easily build Apache Flink apps, streaming Java apps, and real-time SQL queries to get real-time analytics, clickstream analytics, log analytics, event analytics, and iot analytics.

Capture, process, and store video streams & media streams for computer vision apps, smart home apps, smart city apps, and real-time video analytics.

Amazon MSK is a fully managed, secure, and highly available Apache Kafka service that makes it easy to ingest and process streaming data in real time at a low cost.

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, serverless time series database service for Internet of Things (IoT) and operational applications that helps you store and analyze time series data.

AWS IoT SiteWise makes it easy to collect, organize, and analyze data from industrial equipment at scale.

AWS IoT Analytics makes it simple to run and operationalize analytics on massive volumes of IoT data, without the cost and complexity of building an IoT analytics platform.

AWS IoT lets you securely connect and manage devices, collect and analyze device data, and build and deploy solutions that drive greater business value.

Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto.