Amazon SNS versus Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Learn how Amazon SNS differs from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.
| Amazon SNS | Amazon Kinesis Data Streams | |
|---|---|---|
| Scaling | infinite |
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 | no |
up to 7 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, webhook |
Lambda |
| License | AWS only |
AWS only |
| Encryption at rest | yes |
yes |
| Encryption in transit | yes |
yes |