You need to ingest streaming data and persist it as Apache Parquet files for analysis. Which AWS service both ingests streaming data and can deliver it in Parquet format to storage?
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Correct answer: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose.
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Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the correct choice because it is designed to capture, transform, and load streaming data into data lakes, data stores, and analytics services. Crucially, Firehose can directly convert incoming data to Apache Parquet format before delivering it to destinations like Amazon S3. AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is used for migrating databases, not for general-purpose streaming data ingestion and format conversion. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a highly scalable data streaming service, but it requires additional processing (e.g., with AWS Lambda or Kinesis Data Analytics) to convert data to Parquet and deliver it to storage; it doesn't do this natively. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is used for real-time processing of streaming data using SQL or Apache Flink, not for direct ingestion and format conversion to Parquet for storage.
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