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How Airties achieved scalability and cost-efficiency by moving from Kafka to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

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Airties successfully migrated from Apache Kafka to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, achieving significant improvements in scalability, cost-efficiency, and operational performance for their home connectivity IoT platform.

  • Replaced multiple Kafka clusters with a serverless Kinesis Data Streams architecture
  • Implemented auto-scaling capabilities with dynamic shard management
  • Created a decoupled data storage solution using Amazon S3, DynamoDB, and Kinesis
  • Achieved 33% reduction in monthly infrastructure costs
  • Reduced energy consumption by 40%
  • Eliminated manual cluster management and capacity planning

The new architecture enables Airties to process telemetry data from millions of access points more efficiently, with improved scalability, reliability, and operational simplicity.



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