Amazon Kinesis is a cloud-based data streaming platform offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It allows organizations to collect, process, and analyze real-time data streams at scale. Amazon Kinesis provides a range of tools and technologies for capturing, storing, and processing data streams, including Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully managed service that allows users to send and receive real-time data streams, such as log data, application events, and social media feeds. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is a fully managed service that allows users to easily load data streams into data stores or analytics tools, such as Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Elasticsearch. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is a fully managed service that allows users to analyze real-time data streams using SQL or Java.

Amazon Kinesis is often used by businesses in a variety of industries, including finance, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing, to help them process and analyze real-time data streams in order to gain insights and make data-driven decisions.