Amazon Changes The Big Data Game With Kinesis: Leaves Competition Speechless (for Now)

"Amazon Web Services (AWS) pretty much has the big data workload taken care of, said Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly on theCUBE. Kinesis handles the real time processing of streaming data, Redshift handles traditional data warehousing, Elastic MapReduce (EMR) handles the open source Hadoop and DynamoDB serves as the database. theCUBES HOST, John Furrier asked, If they close the loop with Kinesis, who can take on Amazon? Who can provide social on top of the infrastructure? The answer? No other vendor can, at least at this point in time. When it comes to big data address manager free trial processing on the Cloud, only Microsoft with Azure, Google Cloud and maybe IBM come close, and thats overstating it. And when it comes to how Amazons ability to process big data streams in real-time affects the vendors that we think of when we hear the word Hadoop, we reached out to a good number of them and what we got back was pretty much silence. Though one did slip us some slides, with the condition that we do not reveal their identity (or publish the slides, of course). Is There a Downside to Processing Big Data on Amazons Cloud? The issues the slides brought up were around EMR, not Kinesis, but they included some relevant points about AWSs vulnerabilities when it comes to issues like: Security AWS policy reads Because youre building systems on top of the AWS cloud infrastructure, the security responsibilities will be shared: AWS manages the underlying infrastructure but you must secure anything you put on the infrastructure. Gravity Data needs to be moved to the Cloud then be extracted and made available to applications, analytics, the data warehouse . Limited Hadoop Components Amazons focus is on EMR. Costs While AWS is great for transient projects, the slides explain, on premises is less expensive when data is required to stay in the cloud, or cluster. The per minute costs of EMR in this scenario are infinite.

The per minute costs of EMR in this scenario are infinite. Will Established Enterprises Leap onto Amazons Cloud? Will these concerns keep enterprises from moving to Amazon? In some cases, yes.