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aws kinesis — Interact with the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, a service that scales elastically for real-time proce

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Problem

How to use the aws kinesis command: Interact with the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, a service that scales elastically for real-time processing of streaming big data. More information: <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/kinesis/index.html#cli-aws-kinesis>.

Solution

aws kinesis — Interact with the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, a service that scales elastically for real-time processing of streaming big data. More information: <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/kinesis/index.html#cli-aws-kinesis>.

Show all streams in the account:

aws kinesis list-streams

Write one record to a Kinesis stream:

aws kinesis put-record --stream-name {{name}} --partition-key {{key}} --data {{base64_encoded_message}}

Write a record to a Kinesis stream with inline base64 encoding:

aws kinesis put-record --stream-name {{name}} --partition-key {{key}} --data "$( echo "{{my raw message}}" | base64 )"

List the shards available on a stream:

aws kinesis list-shards --stream-name {{name}}

Get a shard iterator for reading from the oldest message in a stream's shard:

aws kinesis get-shard-iterator --shard-iterator-type TRIM_HORIZON --stream-name {{name}} --shard-id {{id}}

Read records from a shard, using a shard iterator:

aws kinesis get-records --shard-iterator {{iterator}}

Code Snippets

Show all streams in the account

aws kinesis list-streams

Write one record to a Kinesis stream

aws kinesis put-record --stream-name {{name}} --partition-key {{key}} --data {{base64_encoded_message}}

Write a record to a Kinesis stream with inline base64 encoding

aws kinesis put-record --stream-name {{name}} --partition-key {{key}} --data "$( echo "{{my raw message}}" | base64 )"

List the shards available on a stream

aws kinesis list-shards --stream-name {{name}}

Get a shard iterator for reading from the oldest message in a stream's shard

aws kinesis get-shard-iterator --shard-iterator-type TRIM_HORIZON --stream-name {{name}} --shard-id {{id}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/aws kinesis

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