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Amazon Kinesis Streams source properties

The following table describes the Amazon Kinesis Streams source properties on the

Source

tab when you define a

streaming ingestion

task:

Property	Description
Connection	Name of the Amazon Kinesis Stream source connection.
Connection Type	The Amazon Kinesis connection type. The connection type populates automatically based on the connection that you select.
Stream	Name of the Kinesis Stream from which you want to read data.

The following table describes the advanced properties for Amazon Kinesis Streams sources in the

Source

tab when you define a

streaming ingestion

task:

Property	Description
Append GUID to DynamoDB table name	Specifies whether or not to add a GUID as a suffix to the Amazon DynamoDB table name. If disabled, you must enter the Amazon DynamoDB table name. Default is enabled.
Amazon DynamoDB	Amazon DynamoDB table name to store the checkpoint details of the Kinesis source data. The Amazon DynamoDB table name is generated automatically. However, if you enter a name of your choice, the streaming ingestion task prefixes the given name to the auto-generated name.

For more information about Kinesis Streams, see the Amazon Web Services documentation.