Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform today launched Kinesis Analytics, a new service that makes it easier to analyze real-time streaming data with the help of standard SQL queries. Kinesis Analytics builds on AWS’s Kinesis real-time streaming data platform, which enables developers to ingest streaming data and use it in their applications.
With Kinesis Analytics, developers can immediately make the incoming data useful by running these continuous SQL queries to filter and manipulate it as it arrives.
As AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr writes today, a regular database query looks at data that is basically static. ” Running a Kinesis Analytics query against streaming data turns this model sideways,” he writes.
