SAA-C03 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Practice Question
A high-volume analytics dashboard writes streaming click events that must be processed by multiple independent consumers. Which service is most appropriate? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.
⚠ Common exam trap
Many candidates confuse Kinesis Data Streams with Kinesis Data Firehose, but Firehose delivers data to a single destination and does not support multiple independent consumers natively.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is the correct choice because it is designed for real-time streaming data ingestion and processing by multiple independent consumers. Each consumer can read from the stream at its own pace using its own shard iterator, enabling parallel processing of click events without custom scripts. This aligns with the requirement for a high-volume analytics dashboard where multiple downstream applications need to consume the same stream independently.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Amazon Route 53
Why it's wrong here
Route 53 is DNS and does not process event records.
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Amazon EBS
Why it's wrong here
EBS is block storage for EC2 and not a multi-consumer event stream.
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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Why this is correct
Kinesis Data Streams supports high-throughput event ingestion with multiple consumers reading from the stream.
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AWS DataSync
Why it's wrong here
DataSync transfers files and object data, not live event streams.
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