A developer is building an application that processes a stream of user-supplied data. The data stream must be consumed by multiple Amazon EC2 based processing applications in parallel and in real time. Each processor must be able to resume without losing data if there is a service interruption. The Application Architect plans to add other processors in the near future, and wants to minimize the amount data duplication involved. Which solution will satisfy these requirements?
A) Publish the data to Amazon SQS.
B) Publish the data to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose.
C) Publish the data to Amazon CloudWatch Events.
D) Publish the data to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams allows multiple consumers to process the data in parallel and provides features like data retention and checkpointing, which help in resuming processing without data loss in case of interruptions. It also supports adding more processors easily without duplicating data.

A Developer Is Building an Application That Processes a Stream