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Custom consumers or delivery?
This comparison card contrasts Custom consumers or delivery. Kinesis Data Streams is described as real-time consumers you build (Lambda/Flink). Kinesis Data Firehose is described as managed delivery to S3/OpenSearch/Redshift. The card pairs Kinesis Data Streams with low-latency processing, and Kinesis Data Firehose with managed lake/analytics landing.
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Custom consumers or delivery?
Kinesis Data Streams
Real-time consumers you build (Lambda/Flink).
Kinesis Data Firehose
Managed delivery to S3/OpenSearch/Redshift.
Key points
Fraud score within seconds.
Land raw clicks as Parquet in S3.
Example
GetRecords / Lambda ESM / Firehose → s3://lake/
Use when
Low-latency processing.
Managed lake/analytics landing.