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Data & Analytics · Intermediate

Amazon Data Firehose

A managed service (formerly Kinesis Data Firehose) that buffers and delivers streaming data to S3, Redshift, OpenSearch, Snowflake and more.

Definition

Firehose is near-real-time (buffer-based), scales automatically, can transform records with Lambda, and can convert JSON to Parquet or ORC using the Glue Data Catalog.

Exam tip

Firehose has no replay and buffers data, so it is near-real-time rather than real-time.

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