[vosper]

I'm really excited about this - data streaming has been a crucial missing piece for building large-scale apps on AWS.

If the performance and pricing are right it's going to relieve a lot of headaches in terms of infrastructure management.

[cjwebb]

Forgive my ignorance, but what would this potentially replace? Kafka/Storm/Something else?

[hatred]

Yep, Amazon's version of Kafka/Storm with pay as you go minus the headaches of maintaining the cluster.

[ihsw]

Sounds about right.