AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty 2021 - Hands-On! - Kinesis Data Firehose

The video tutorial provides an in-depth overview of Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, a fully managed service for real-time data streaming. It covers key features such as automatic scaling, data transformation, and compression. The tutorial explains the integration with various AWS services and highlights the differences between Kinesis Data Streams and Firehose. It also discusses buffer sizing, data delivery, and error handling mechanisms, emphasizing the importance of understanding these concepts for AWS certification exams.

What is Kinesis Data Firehose and what are its main features?

What are the four destinations that Kinesis Data Firehose can load data into?

What is the billing model for Kinesis Data Firehose?

How does Kinesis Data Firehose handle data transformation?

What happens to data in case of a transformation or delivery failure in Kinesis Data Firehose?

Describe the buffer sizing mechanism in Kinesis Data Firehose.

Explain the difference between Kinesis Data Streams and Kinesis Data Firehose.