Amazon Kinesis vs. AWS IoT Core

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Kinesis
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Kinesis is a streaming analytics suite for data intake from video or other disparate sources and applying analytics for machine learning (ML) and business intelligence.
$0.01
per GB data ingested / consumed
AWS IoT Core
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
AWS IoT Core is a managed cloud service that lets connected devices interact with cloud applications and other devices. It includes the Device Gateway and the Message Broker, which connect and process messages between IoT devices and the cloud. AWS IoT Core connects AWS and Amazon services like AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon QuickSight, and Alexa Voice Service to build IoT applications that gather, process,…
$0.08
Per Million Minutes
Pricing
Amazon KinesisAWS IoT Core
Editions & Modules
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
$0.00850
per GB data ingested / consumed
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
$0.04
per hour per stream
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
$0.11
per hour
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
tiered pricing starting at $0.029
per month first 500 TB ingested
Connectivity
$0.08
Per Million Minutes
Rules Engine
$0.15
Per Million Actions
Messaging
$1.00
Per Million Messages
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon KinesisAWS IoT Core
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Amazon KinesisAWS IoT Core
Considered Both Products
Amazon Kinesis
Chose Amazon Kinesis
Kinesis is oriented to streaming in a scalable way large volumes of information in real-time. Glue is more an ETL so it is not well suited for real-time applications while Beanstalk is more a simple container platform. Lambda could do the job but it would require a lot of …
Chose Amazon Kinesis
The main benefit was around set up - incredibly easy to just start using Kinesis. Kinesis is a real-time data processing platform, while Kafka is more of a message queue system. If you only need a message queue from a limited source, Kafka may do the job. More complex use …
Chose Amazon Kinesis
Actually we didn't select Kinesis, we were forced into using it because SQS wasn't yet supported by Lambda. Unlike Kinesis, SQS supports both FIFO and standard queues which let us control order of events processed, as well as handle retry logic, failover logic, and set up …
AWS IoT Core
Chose AWS IoT Core
Azure IoT is a good product but since our whole suite of tech is now set up in AWS (ec2, s3, sagemaker, cloud formation, etc.), we wanted something that could quickly adapt to our environments. Learning a new tech for IoT was simply a bottleneck that we wanted to avoid at this …
Chose AWS IoT Core
AWS iot core is a good starting point which can be utilized for a variety of enterprise solutions. Barrier to entry to experiment and try AWS iot core is less and AWS eco-system providers ensure that even startups can try a variety of solutions and build key skills and …
Chose AWS IoT Core
Trust with vendor AWS, as most of the infrastructure is on AWS hence it was easy to integrate. community support and documentation.
Chose AWS IoT Core
AWS loT is more oriented to our requirements including certificates and policies
Chose AWS IoT Core
Azure IoT service provides more or less the same services as compared to AWS IoT core, however the costing of AWS lead us to continued usage of IoT core over Azure IoT services.
Also, considering our existing technology stack is on AWS, it was a natural selection for better …
Chose AWS IoT Core
It turns out that AWS IoT Core is the most mature solution on the market with the best variety of integration tools available. On the downside, it is not the cheapest platform existing out there. Amazon IoT Core is easy to start and set up, and our prior engagement with Amazon …
Chose AWS IoT Core
For our use case, we ended up with AWS because the human resources that were planning to be resourced on this particular project happened to have prior familiarity with the AWS ecosystem. The conversation became can we justify continuing with this ecosystem rather than pivoting …
Chose AWS IoT Core
Most important reason for picking IoT Core was all our services are on AWS so no comparison here.
Chose AWS IoT Core
We have checked other IoT platforms such as IBM Watson IoT and Microsoft Azure IoT, but Amazon IoT Core seems reasonable in terms of pricing and overall functionalities. Amazon IoT Core is easy to start and set up and our prior engagement with Amazon for AWS was a factor to go …
Chose AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core is faster, easier, cheaper, and enjoyed by our employees more than Microsoft Azure. We selected AWS IoT because we saw an advertisement for it and have used it ever since. We will continue to use it as long as it is around or until we find one that is better.
Chose AWS IoT Core
We prefer Amazon storage and content delivery S3 services rather than Microsoft Blob Storage. Also, AWS IoT Core seems to be the cheaper alternative compared to Azure IoT.
Features
Amazon KinesisAWS IoT Core
Streaming Analytics
Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Kinesis
8.3
Ratings
3% above category average
AWS IoT Core
-
Ratings
Real-Time Data Analysis10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Low Latency9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrated Development Tools9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data wrangling and preparation10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out6.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Enrichment5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Internet of Things
Comparison of Internet of Things features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Kinesis
-
Ratings
AWS IoT Core
8.2
Ratings
2% above category average
IoT Device Management00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Device Security00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
IoT Data Management00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
IoT Analytics00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
IoT Integration00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Amazon KinesisAWS IoT Core
Small Businesses
IBM Streams (discontinued)
IBM Streams (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10

No answers on this topic

Medium-sized Companies
Confluent
Confluent
Score 9.9 out of 10

No answers on this topic

Enterprises
Spotfire Streaming
Spotfire Streaming
Score 6.6 out of 10

No answers on this topic

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User Ratings
Amazon KinesisAWS IoT Core
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.6
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.1
(0 ratings)
7.8
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon KinesisAWS IoT Core
Likelihood to Recommend
Perfect for real-time data processing and streaming. Also, there's no need for any specific setup - you just start using it immediately and it easily integrates with the rest of AWS capabilities (like Redshift), although integration with Lambda could be better. You can make your overall analytics landscape way simpler with Kineses even if you have non-Amazon solutions like Tableau. It all integrates really well!
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AWS iot core is very useful if you need to scale very quickly for managing lots of devices without handling the underlying infrastructure cost. It can enable real time publishing and subscription of devices, monitoring and early stage intervention in case of unexpected issues while developing a full stack solution. However, healthcare scenarios where government intervention is needed should be developed and scaled by following the set of compliance policies of the government and the SLA requirements of the customer. Finally, it is great where you need to do data science research after anonymizing data
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Pros
  • Integrating with other Amazon services
  • Scaling requests
  • Totally serverless platform
  • Simple management
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  • AWS IoT Core integrates power analytics and an AI solution for sensor data processing.
  • Great protocol support including HTTPs and MQTT required to connect resource constraint IoT devices to cloud
  • High security standards during data transmission
  • Scalability and a great user community
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Cons
  • Improve integration with AWS Lambda
  • Some duplicate records coming from the stream
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  • It would be great to have better integration with other IoT products outside of AWS
  • It has been lagging in some of our applications. It's difficult to tell whether this is on AWS IoT or on our implementation
  • It would be great to support a wider range of protocols
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Usability
No answers on this topic
I give AWS IoT Core's overall usability this rating because it is very easy to use and is enjoyed by all of our staff. The only problem is that it sometimes glitches and it freezes a lot. So overall, the usability of AWS IoT Core is very good, and we will continue to use it.
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Support Rating
The documentation was confusing and lacked examples. The streams suddenly stopped working with no explanation and there was no information in the logs. All these were more difficult when dealing with enhanced fan-out. In fact, we were about to abort the usage of Kinesis due to a misunderstanding with enhanced fan-out.
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It covers all the aspects of IoT services required for an IoT company. It supports all the industry-wide protocols for secure data transmission and integrates powerful AL and ML technology for data analytics. For data storage, Amazon S3 is a great solution. Strong tech support and user community. Since it is widely used as compared to other products, there is an abundance of training and learning material on the web.
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Alternatives Considered
Kinesis is oriented to streaming in a scalable way large volumes of information in real-time. Glue is more an ETL so it is not well suited for real-time applications while Beanstalk is more a simple container platform. Lambda could do the job but it would require a lot of programming to accomplish the same as Kinesis. In fact, our solution employed the four elements for different tasks but using Kinesis as the message bus.
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Azure IoT is a good product but since our whole suite of tech is now set up in AWS (ec2, s3, sagemaker, cloud formation, etc.), we wanted something that could quickly adapt to our environments. Learning a new tech for IoT was simply a bottleneck that we wanted to avoid at this point.
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Return on Investment
  • Caused us to need to re-engineer some basic re-try logic
  • Caused us to drop some content without knowing it
  • Made monitoring much more difficult
  • We eventually switched back to SQS because Kinesis is not the same as a Queue system
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  • Gives confidence to prototype iot solutions across lots of devices in little time
  • Ability to meet requirements for managing a variety of communication protocols
  • Learning iot analytics and visualization for faster insights enablement
  • Onboarding devices and managing quickly without building inhouse solutions
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