Azure real-time analytics service for processing streaming data. Like having a smart analyst that can spot patterns and trends in live data streams.
A traffic management system uses Stream Analytics to process real-time sensor data and optimize traffic light timing.
Azure Stream Analytics is a managed, SQL-like stream processing service. AWS Kinesis Data Analytics provides stream processing (SQL and Apache Flink). GCP Dataflow (Apache Beam) handles both streaming and batch pipelines. OCI typically combines OCI Streaming (ingest) with OCI Data Flow (Apache Spark) for stream/batch processing rather than a single dedicated Stream Analytics-branded service.