Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink was previously known as Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink.
Managed Service for Apache Flink tracks events using the following timestamps:
Processing Time: Refers to the system time of the machine that is executing the respective operation.
Event Time: Refers to the time that each individual event occurred on its producing device.
Ingestion Time: Refers to the time that events enter the Managed Service for Apache Flink service.
You set the time used by the streaming environment using setStreamTimeCharacteristic.
env.setStreamTimeCharacteristic(TimeCharacteristic.ProcessingTime); env.setStreamTimeCharacteristic(TimeCharacteristic.IngestionTime); env.setStreamTimeCharacteristic(TimeCharacteristic.EventTime);
For more information about timestamps, see Generating Watermarks
