New service helps pull data into AWS from the Internet of Things
Amazon's new Kinesis Firehose service, announced at its Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas Wednesday, focuses on helping companies pull streams of data in from all sorts of devices. The service, available immediately, connects streaming data sources, including embedded devices that are part of the Internet of Things, to AWS storage.
Using a single PUT API call to Firehose, companies can get an entire stream of data from devices into AWS's Redshift database service and/or Simple Storage Service (S3). Once the data hits Firehose, Amazon will send it to the selected storage service or services within a minute.
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