Hello and welcome to this course on Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.  

My name is Stephen Cole and I’ll be your instructor for this course.  I’ve been working in the cloud for several years and currently hold many active AWS certifications.

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This course is intended for people that want to learn about streaming data into the AWS cloud using Amazon Kinesis.

I expect that, before you start taking this course, you have had some experience with running workloads in the AWS cloud. For the most part, I try to explain as I go but some of the things I cover are more superficial reminders of what's possible. 

As an example, when I talk about data security and encryption, I'm assuming that you know something about the Key Management Service--KMS--or know to look it up on your own.  

This course, in many ways, is a primer for getting started with Kinesis Data Streams.  However, if you've started using Kinesis Data Streams already, I have put some content inside these lectures that will either round out your understanding of the tools you're using or explain how Kinesis Data Streams works so that you can use it more effectively.

I cover the vocabulary of Kinesis Data Streams, explain how streaming data is modeled, and cover how to get data into and out of a stream.

When you're finished with this series of lectures, you will know what a Kinesis Producer Application is, what a Kinesis Consumer Application is and how they communicate with a Kinesis Data Stream. 

Every distributed system has limits and Kinesis Data Streams is no exception.  I will cover the limits of Kinesis Data Streams, what they mean, and how to avoid some of them. You'll learn how costs are calculated using Kinesis Data Streams, as well as how data can be secured and protected inside a stream.

You will also be able to describe the process of moving data from its source to a destination using Kinesis Data Streams.

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As a result, minor discrepancies may appear in the course content over time.  Here at Cloud Academy, we strive to keep our courses up to date in order to provide the best training available.  

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This will allow us to update the course during the next release cycle.  We would love to hear from you.  I would love to hear from you.  Tell me what you learned, what could use some attention, or what worked really well for you.  

That said, let's get started.