AWS Kinesis Data Streams

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The Amazon Kinesis Data Streams connector uses the AWS SDK to communicate to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, which is REST based. The Access Key and Secret Key must be acquired for an IAM user that is in a group with access to the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams API. This permission in AWS is called AmazonKinesisFullAccess. This role is used to publish data to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.

Connection Settings

Access Key

IAM created user access key with AmazonKinesisFullAccess permission.

Secret Key

IAM provided secret key.

Region

Region of the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams instance (e.g., us-east-1)

Input Settings

Inputs are not currently supported

Output Settings

Data Stream

The name of data stream to write to.

Partition Key

An optional field to specify a partition key for the data stream. Outputs with a specified partition key will all write to the same shard. If no partition key is given, the output will disperse requests among all existing shards for the data stream.