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Amazon Kinesis vs. Confluent

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Amazon Kinesis

23 Reviews and Ratings

Confluent

24 Reviews and Ratings

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Kinesis

    Score9.7 out of 10
    		N/AAmazon 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

    Confluent

    Score9.9 out of 10
    		N/AConfluent Cloud is a cloud-native service for Apache Kafka used to connect and process data in real time with a fully managed data streaming platform. Confluent Platform is the self-managed version.

    $385

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon KinesisConfluent
    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
    Basic
    $0
    Standard
    Starting at ~$385
    per month
    Enterprise
    Starting at ~$1,150
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon KinesisConfluent
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Confluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/hour), networking ($/GB), and storage ($/GB-hour). Connect: Use of connectors is billed based on throughput ($/GB) and a task base price ($/task/hour). Process: Use of stream processing with Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is calculated based on CFUs ($/minute). Govern: Use of Stream Governance is billed based on environment ($/hour). Confluent storage and throughput is calculated in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 2^30 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB). Please also note that all prices are stated in United States Dollars unless specifically stated otherwise. All billing computations are conducted in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
    More Pricing Information
    Features
    Amazon KinesisConfluent
    Streaming Analytics
    Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Amazon Kinesis and Confluent
    Feature
    Amazon Kinesis
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    Confluent
    9.1
    2 Ratings
    Real-Time Data Analysis10.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources9.02 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Low Latency9.02 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Integrated Development Tools9.02 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Data wrangling and preparation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Linear Scale-Out6.12 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Data Enrichment5.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Visualization Dashboards00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon KinesisConfluent
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)