Kinesis Quiz
A company has an infrastructure that consists of machines which keep sending log information every 5 minutes. The number of these machines can run into thousands and it is required to ensure that the data can be analyzed at a later stage. Which of the following would help in fulfilling this requirement?
A. Use Kinesis Firehose with S3 to take the logs and store them in S3 for further processing.
B. Launch an Elastic Beanstalk application to take the processing job of the logs.
C. Launch an EC2 instance with enough EBS volumes to consume the logs which can be usedfor further processing.
D. Use CloudTrail to store all the logs which can be analyzed at a later stage.
A. Use Kinesis Firehose with S3 to take the logs and store them in S3 for further processing.
AWS Documentation mentions the following which is perfectly in accordance with this requirement:
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. It can capture, transform, and load streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk, enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools and dashboards you’re already using today.
For more information on Amazon Kinesis firehose, please visit the following URL:
https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-firehose/
