Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is ranked #10 of 22 in event streaming platforms on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Web. There is no free plan.
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams plans and pricing
All plansOn-demand Standard Not published pay per GB written and read plus per-stream hourly charge $0.08/GB ingested in US-East · $0.040/GB retrieved in US-East · $0.040 per stream-hour in US-East · 24-hour retention included · optional retention up to 365 days aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
On-demand Advantage Not published pay per GB written and read with account-level minimum usage $0.032/GB ingested in US-East · $0.016/GB retrieved in US-East · 25 MB/s minimum ingested and retrieved at account level · no fixed stream-hour charge · retention up to 365 days aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Provisioned mode Not published pay per shard-hour, PUT payload units, and optional features 1 MB/s write or 1,000 records/s per shard · 2 MB/s read per shard · 25 KB PUT payload units · 24-hour default retention · retention up to 365 days aws.amazon.com · 1 Oct 2026
Compared on event streaming platforms
- Free plan
- No
- Deployment model
- cloud
- Maximum retention
- 365 days
- Stream processing
- Yes
- Schema registry
- Yes
- Delivery guarantee
- at-least-once
- Supported client languages
- Go, Java, JavaScript, .NET, PHP, Python, Ruby, C++, Kotlin, Rust, SAP ABAP, Swift




