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 target, 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.