Amazon Kinesis Data Streams versus AWS IoT Core
Learn how Amazon Kinesis Data Streams differs from AWS IoT Core.
| Amazon Kinesis Data Streams | AWS IoT Core | |
|---|---|---|
| Scaling | 1 MB or 1000 msg/sec per shard; up to 500 shards; you need to manually add/remove shards |
not disclosed |
| Max. message size | 1 MB |
128 KB |
| Persistence | up to 365 days |
up to 1 hour |
| Replication | Multi-AZ |
Multi-AZ |
| Order guarantee | within a shard |
no |
| Delivery guarantee | at least once |
at least once / at most once |
| Pricing | per shard hour |
per message + connection duration |
| Protocols | AWS Rest API |
MQTT, AWS Rest API |
| AWS Integrations | Lambda |
Lambda, SQS, SNS, and many more |
| License | AWS only |
AWS only |
| Encryption at rest | yes |
no |
| Encryption in transit | yes |
yes |
Further reading
- Amazon SQS Standard versus Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
- Amazon SQS Standard versus AWS IoT Core
- Amazon SQS FIFO versus Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
- Amazon SQS FIFO versus AWS IoT Core
- Amazon SNS Standard versus Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
- Amazon SNS Standard versus AWS IoT Core
- Amazon SNS FIFO versus Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
- Amazon SNS FIFO versus AWS IoT Core
- Amazon EventBridge (formerly CloudWatch Events) versus Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
- Amazon EventBridge (formerly CloudWatch Events) versus AWS IoT Core
- Amazon Kinesis Data Streams versus Amazon MSK
- Amazon Kinesis Data Streams versus Amazon MQ
- Amazon MSK versus AWS IoT Core
- Amazon MQ versus AWS IoT Core