Amazon Kinesis Firehose gives you an easy and reliable way to load your streaming data into data lakes, data stores, and a host of other analytics tools. It is a fully-managed service that can be scaled automatically to match the load and throughput of your data, without requiring any additional administration. You can also perform batch processing, and compress, transform, and encrypt your data before loading it. Firehose helps you minimize the amount of storage used at the destination in a secure manner.

Apache Kafka is a popular distributed streaming platform. It allows you to handle large-scale workloads with high throughput and low latency. Apache Kafka is highly available and is used across the world for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications.