Two years ago we introduced Amazon Kinesis, which we now call Amazon Kinesis Streams, to allow customers to build applications that collect, process, and analyze streaming data with very high throughput. Many customers use Amazon Kinesis Streams to capture streaming data and load it into Amazon S3 or Amazon Redshift. Until now, this required customers to manage the Amazon Kinesis data streams and write custom code to load the data. We are now introducing Amazon Kinesis Firehose, a fully managed service that makes this as easy as an API call.

Amazon Kinesis Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into AWS. It can capture and automatically load streaming data into Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift, enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools and dashboards you’re already using today. It is a fully managed service that automatically scales to match the throughput of your data and requires no ongoing administration. It can also batch, compress, and encrypt the data before loading it, minimizing the amount of storage used at the destination and increasing security. You can easily create a Firehose delivery stream from the AWS Management Console, configure it with a few clicks, and start sending data to the stream from hundreds of thousands of data sources to be loaded continuously to AWS – all in just a few minutes.

With Amazon Kinesis Firehose, you only pay for the amount of data you transmit through the service. There is no minimum fee or setup cost.

Amazon Kinesis Firehose is currently available in the following AWS Regions: N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland. To learn more about Amazon Kinesis Firehose, see our