Name of the connection.

The name is not case sensitive and must be unique within the domain. You can change this property after you create the connection. The name cannot exceed 128 characters, contain spaces, or contain the following special characters:

~ ` ! $ % ^ & * ( ) - + = { [ } ] | \ : ; " ' < , > . ? /

Optional. Description that you can use to identity the connection.

The description cannot exceed 4,000 characters.

The Amazon Kinesis connection type.

If you do not see the Amazon Kinesis connection type, go to the

Add-On Connectors

page to enable the connector.

Name of the runtime environment where you want to run the tasks.

The type of Kinesis Service that you want to use. Select

Kinesis Firehose

.

The access key ID of the Amazon AWS user account.

The secret access key for the Amazon AWS user account.

Region where the endpoint for your service is available. You can select one of the following values:

us-east-2. Indicates the US East (Ohio) region.
us-east-1. Indicates the US East (N. Virginia) region.
us-west-1. Indicates the US West (N. California) region.
us-west-2. Indicates the US West (Oregon) region.
ap-northeast-1. Indicates the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region.
ap-northeast-2. Indicates the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region.
ap-northeast-3. Indicates the Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) region.
ap-south-1. Indicates the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region.
ap-southeast-1. Indicates the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region.
ap-southeast-2. Indicates the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region.
ca-central-1. Indicates the Canada (Central) region.
cn-north-1. Indicates the China (Beijing) region.
cn-northwest-1. Indicates the China (Ningxia) region.
eu-central-1. Indicates the EU (Frankfurt) region.
eu-west-1. Indicates the EU (Ireland) region.
eu-west-2. Indicates the EU (London) region.
eu-west-3. Indicates the EU (Paris) region.
sa-east-1. Indicates the South America (São Paulo) region.
us-gov-west-1. Indicates AWS GovCloud (US-West) region.
us-gov-east-1. Indicates AWS GovCloud (US-East) region.

A streaming ingestion task does not support ap-northeast-3 region.

Optional. Number of milliseconds that the

Mass Ingestion

service waits to establish a connection to the Kinesis Firehose after which it times out.

Default is 10,000 milliseconds.

The type of authentication.

Select one of the following values:

AWS Credential Profile
Cross-account IAM Role

Default is AWS Credential Profile.

Cross-account IAM Role is not applicable for a streaming ingestion task.

An AWS credential profile defined in the credentials file.

Required if you use the AWS credential profile authentication type.

A mapping accesses the AWS credentials through the profile name at run time. If you do not provide an AWS credential profile name, the mapping uses the access key ID and secret access key that you specify when you create the connection.

The Amazon Resource Name specifying the role of an IAM user.

Required if you use the cross-account IAM role authentication type.

Not applicable for a streaming ingestion task.

The external ID for an IAM role is an additional restriction that you can use in an IAM role trust policy to designate who can assume the IAM role.

Required if you use the cross-account IAM role authentication type and if the external ID is defined by the AWS account.

Not applicable for a streaming ingestion task.