Posted On: Dec 28, 2023

With zero buffering, customers can deliver data to Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Redshift, and third-party HTTP destinations within seconds enabling real time use cases the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.

Currently, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose aggregates data for at least 60 seconds before delivering it to a destination. However, many customers want faster insights from their data. With zero buffering, customers can setup an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose stream to not aggregate data before delivery, and most streams are delivered within five seconds. For some use cases where zero buffering is not suitable, customers have the flexibility to choose a lower buffer interval anywhere from zero to maximum buffer interval range.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easy way to load streaming data. To get started with Kinesis Data Firehose, visit the console and the developer guide.