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Kinesis vs. Kafka - 2025 Comprehensive Comparison

🚀 What’s New in This 2025 Comparison

Platform Evolution Since 2017

• Kafka 4.0 Released - No ZooKeeper, improved performance, cloud-native features
• Kinesis Enhanced - 365-day retention, on-demand scaling, deeper AWS integration
• Managed Services Matured - Amazon MSK and Confluent Cloud now production-ready
• Cost Models Evolved - Better pricing for high-scale workloads
• Security Enhanced - Zero-trust architectures, advanced compliance
• Developer Experience - Improved tooling, SDKs, and monitoring

Key Differentiators in 2025

• ✅ Performance - Kafka leads in throughput, Kinesis in simplicity
• ✅ Cost - Kinesis for small/medium, Kafka for massive scale
• ✅ Operations - Kinesis is serverless, Kafka offers more control
• ✅ Ecosystem - Kinesis for AWS-native, Kafka for multi-cloud

Executive Summary

In 2025, both Amazon Kinesis and Apache Kafka have evolved into mature, enterprise-grade streaming platforms. This guide helps you choose the right platform based on your specific requirements, workload characteristics, and organizational capabilities.

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Kafka Consulting Services - 2025

🚀 Kafka Consulting Services 2025

What’s New in Our Consulting Practice

• KRaft Migration Experts - Seamless ZooKeeper to KRaft transitions
• Cloud-Native Specialists - Kubernetes, serverless, and managed services
• AI/ML Integration - Streaming data pipelines for machine learning
• Multi-Cloud Expertise - AWS, GCP, Azure, and hybrid deployments
• Security First - Zero-trust architectures and compliance
• Cost Optimization - Right-sizing and efficient resource usage

Expert Kafka Consulting for Modern Data Platforms

Transform your data infrastructure with Apache Kafka 4.0. Cloudurable’s expert consultants help organizations build, optimize, and operate high-performance streaming platforms that process billions of events daily.

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Kafka Consulting

Kafka Consulting

Learn how to employ best practices for your teams’ Kafka deployments. Cloudurable has a range of consulting services and training to help you get the most out of Kafka from architecture to help with setting up health checks.

If you are new to Apache Kafka, Cloudurable has mentoring, consulting, and training to help you get the most of the Kafka streaming data platform. Our professional services teams can support your team designing a real-time streaming platform using Kafka. We can work shoulder to shoulder with your DevOps, Ops, and development team. Learn about the best practices, trade-offs, and avoid costly pitfalls to ensure a successful Kafka deployment.

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Kinesis vs. Kafka

Kinesis vs. Kafka

Kinesis works with streaming data.

• Stock prices
• Game data (scores from game)
• Social network data
• Geospatial data like Uber data where you are
• IOT sensors

Kafka works with streaming data too.

Kinesis Streams is like Kafka Core. Kinesis Analytics is like Kafka Streams. A Kinesis Shard is like Kafka Partition.

They are similar and get used in similar use cases.

Data is stored in Kinesis for default 24 hours, and you can increase that up to 7 days.

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