# Apache Flink
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Apache Flink is a framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over unbounded and bounded data streams. For more information on consuming Kinesis Data Streams using Apache Flink, see [Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Connector](https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-release-1.15/docs/connectors/datastream/kinesis/).