Amazon EventBridge (formerly CloudWatch Events) versus Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

27 Mar 2024

Learn how Amazon EventBridge (formerly CloudWatch Events) differs from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.

Amazon EventBridge (formerly CloudWatch Events) Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Scaling

not disclosed (default soft limit depends on region; e.g., 10,000 msg/sec in eu-west-1)

1 MB or 1000 msg/sec per shard; up to 500 shards; you need to manually add/remove shards

Max. message size

256 KB

1 MB

Persistence

archiving is possible

up to 365 days

Replication

Multi-AZ

Multi-AZ

Order guarantee

no

within a shard

Delivery guarantee

at least once

at least once

Pricing

per message

per shard hour

Protocols

AWS Rest API

AWS Rest API

AWS Integrations

Lambda, SQS, SNS, and many more

Lambda

License

AWS only

AWS only

Encryption at rest

yes

yes

Encryption in transit

yes

yes