Kinesis Streams is a real-time data stream processing service that Amazon Kinesis offers within the AWS ecosystem. Kinesis Streams is a customizable option that you can use to build custom applications to process and analyze streaming data. As Kinesis Streams cannot automatically scale to meet data in-flow demand, you must manually provision enough capacity to meet system needs.

Before you use a Kinesis stream source, perform the following tasks:

In the Amazon Kinesis console, create and configure an Amazon Kinesis stream.
In the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, create a user.
Download the access key and secret access key that are generated during the user creation process.
Associate the user with a group that has permissions to write to the Kinesis stream.

Mass Ingestion Streaming

does not support profile based and cross account authentication. Amazon Web Services credentials used for Amazon Kinesis must have permissions to access to Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon CloudWatch services.