[gnahckire]

I agree w/ this.

They make insane promises but, the promises don't like up to expectations.

Kinesis analytics for example, can aggregate data across a time window (sliding window) from a stream (Kinesis). A huge issue that isn't document or stated is that when kinesis analytics restarts due to the process dies (being migrated, binpacked, etc.) the ENTIRE time window has to get re-aggregated. So your count drops to 0.

Really unacceptable if you're using it to generate KPIs which you alert on. We ended up switching to a system which pushes the stream data into influx and running the aggregations there via queries.

Dealing w/ AWS during this entire process was a huge pain.

[kennu]

Similar examples have been Fargate and Lambda, which have surprisingly long cold start times depending on runtimes and VPC configurations. IMHO it is a big part of AWS expertise to know these things and be able to choose the right services not just according to the marketing brochures, but according to how they really work for each use case. Having said that, I'm glad to now have learned about that Kinesis Analytics restart issue.