Amazon Kinesis enables you to ingest, buffer and process streaming data in real-time. It can handle any amount of streaming data and process data from hundreds of thousands of sources with very low latencies along with the flexibility to choose the tools that best suit the requirements of your application. Kinesis supports various data formats such as audio, video, application logs, clickstream data, and IoT data. It provides unique streaming services to ingest and leverage this data to perform machine learning as well as advanced analytics.

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.