| Ingest (Direct PUT) | PutRecord / PutRecordBatch | buffered onto Google Cloud Pub/Sub | buffered onto Apache Kafka (Strimzi) on the target cluster | buffered onto Azure Event Hubs | buffered onto OCI Streaming |
| Record transformation · per-batch | Lambda | the Lambda equivalent | the Lambda equivalent | the Lambda equivalent | the Lambda equivalent |
| Delivery sink · destination API | S3 / Redshift / OpenSearch / Snowflake / Splunk / Datadog / HTTP | Records are delivered through destination APIs; warehouse delivery is a record-loading integration, not a Redshift service replacement. | Records are delivered through destination APIs; warehouse delivery is a record-loading integration, not a Redshift service replacement. | Records are delivered through destination APIs; warehouse delivery is a record-loading integration, not a Redshift service replacement. | Records are delivered through destination APIs; warehouse delivery is a record-loading integration, not a Redshift service replacement. |
| Format conversion | Yes | Partial - JSON→Parquet served against a default/inferred schema; the declared Glue Data Catalog schema is AWS-specific and has no target counterpart | Partial - JSON→Parquet served against a default/inferred schema; the declared Glue Data Catalog schema is AWS-specific and has no target counterpart | Partial - JSON→Parquet served against a default/inferred schema; the declared Glue Data Catalog schema is AWS-specific and has no target counterpart | Partial - JSON→Parquet served against a default/inferred schema; the declared Glue Data Catalog schema is AWS-specific and has no target counterpart |
| Snowflake / Splunk / Datadog sinks | Yes | Yes - delivered to Snowpipe / HEC / intake endpoints from the target cloud | Yes - delivered to Snowpipe / HEC / intake endpoints from the target cloud | Yes - delivered to Snowpipe / HEC / intake endpoints from the target cloud | Yes - delivered to Snowpipe / HEC / intake endpoints from the target cloud |
| Redshift sink | Yes | Partial - A retained Redshift destination or a destination-specific warehouse loader; no database, schema or SQL migration | Partial - A retained Redshift destination or a destination-specific warehouse loader; no database, schema or SQL migration | Partial - A retained Redshift destination or a destination-specific warehouse loader; no database, schema or SQL migration | Partial - A retained Redshift destination or a destination-specific warehouse loader; no database, schema or SQL migration |
| API coverage | full | partial | partial | partial | partial |